From the beginning of their nightmare, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton wanted one thing: the arrest of George Zimmerman, the killer of their son Trayvon Martin. Ever since the Feb. 26 shooting of the unarmed teenager in Sanford, Fla., the volunteer neighborhood watch captain has been free, albeit in hiding. That all came to an end today. Angela Corey, a Florida state attorney appointed a special prosecutor in this tragic case, announced that Zimmerman was under arrest and would be charged with second-degree murder.
Nothing about this case has made sense. Nothing.
In the early evening of Feb. 26, Trayvon was on his way back in the rain to his dad’s fiancee’s apartment with an iced tea and a bag of Skittles. Spotting him, Zimmerman called 911 and told the operator, “Hey, we’ve had some break-ins in my neighborhood and there’s a real suspicious guy,” He would go on to say, “This guy looks like he’s up to no good or he’s on drugs or something.”
Trayvon was on the phone, too, with his girlfriend. “He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on. He said he lost the man,” she told the attorney for Trayvon’s parents. But, she said, Zimmerman cornered him. “Trayvon said, ‘What, are you following me for,’ and the man said, ‘What are you doing here.’ Next thing I hear is somebody pushing, and somebody pushed Trayvon because the head set just fell. I called him again and he didn’t answer the phone.”
