Trayvon Martin s girlfriend had to be admitted to the hospital because she was traumatized by hearing the entire confrontation that led up to Trayvon being shot by the white neighborhood watch volunteer, George Zimmerman, in Sanford, Fla.
Trayvon was on the phone with his teenaged female friend in the last moments of his life. Trayvon told her that he was frightened because he was being followed and hounded by a strange man. It provides further clues as to what really went down in the crucial moments before Zimmerman shot him dead.
“He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on. He said he lost the man,” Martin’s friend said. “I asked Trayvon to run, and he said he was going to walk fast. I told him to run but he said he was not going to run.”
The 16-year-old girl told Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump about the last moments of the teenager’s life.
Eventually he would run, said the girl, thinking that he’d managed to escape. But suddenly the strange man was back, cornering Martin.
“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.”
The line went dead. Besides screams heard on 911 calls that night as Martin and Zimmerman scuffled, those were the last words he said.
Martin’s father, Tracey Martin, and mother, Sybrina Fulton, listened to the call along with ABC News, ashen-faced. ABC News reports the teenaged girl had to be taken to the hospital after learning that Trayvon was killed by the strange man, Zimmerman.
“He knew he was being followed and tried to get away from the guy, and the guy still caught up with him,” Tracey Martin said. “And that’s the most disturbing part. He thought he had got away from the guy and the guy backtracked for him.”
The teen was killed by Zimmerman while walking back to his father’s fiancées home after stepping out to buy Skittles and some iced tea during the NBA All-Star Game. After weeks of relentless pressure, the Sanford Police have decided to release emergency and non-emergency calls placed during the incident.
“These a–holes always get away,” Zimmerman says in a call to a non-emergency number.
Dispatcher: “Are you following him?”
Zimmerman: “Yeah.”
Dispatcher: “We don’t need you to do that.”
Zimmerman disobeyed the direct order of the police dispatcher, which is problematic in and of itself. And since he did not adhere to the dispatcher’s order, Trayvon is dead.
