Trayvon’s 16-year-old girlfriend, who police failed to speak to before
releasing Zimmerman without charge, has said that she was on the phone to
him at the time, and that he had said he was being followed and was
frightened.
She said she heard the sound of someone challenge then slam into the teenager,
before the line went dead.
An emergency call made by a neighbour alarmed by the
sound of a struggle was also released – on it, someone can be heard
screaming in pain or fear before a shot rings out.
Mr Zimmerman was never arrested and was allowed to leave the Sanford police
station within hours of Trayvon’s death after telling detectives he fired in
self-defence.
The case has shone a spotlight on race relations in the US, with protesters
claiming that the case would have been handled differently had Trayvon been
white.
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