True story or not and as Haas indicates this man was armed and due to it plus the use of deadly force a boy was killed. Does it make it right, I would say not but equally so if things and happened the other way around would that right, again no it would not.
There are various witness statements about the fight on the ground and if it went to the floor and you knew how to remove a mounted assailant then the technique of bucking/rolling and pulling the weapon to fire is relatively easy to do. The weapon discharged between 1 and 18 inches when it hit Trayvon which is very close indeed and GSR plus blood spatter should have been detectable at the scene of the crime on both the victim and the person who discharged the weapon unless this was not done correctly and in a timely manner, who knows?
A neighbourhood watch captain like Zimmerman should have responsibilities such as reporting any suspicious activities and crimes whilst the police are tasked to deal with and apprehend the criminals and/or suspicious individuals. I would say it is questionable as why you would approach an individual if you thought it could become life threatening incident for either party. You would not want to put yourself in that position you would remove the risk and not increase it.
Unfortunately this is one of many killings in the world. It has been blown-up so large because it took place in the USA, the media picked it up and it went global.
There are far worse places and crimes throughout the world. I am not being insensitive here.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013 ... er-capitalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... icide_rateNot to detract from the topic in-hand and a life is precious, it's very sad when things like this happen and we will never know exactly what transpired but the current fact is Zimmerman is free and Trayvon is dead and justice prevailed for one whilst injustice transpired for the other party.
Kren
