This is a tragedy.

Let me know when you have posted the transcripts for the other calls.

I'm getting to them.

Vabby

There might be other noises that people confuse for gunshots.

I think the second sound was more muffled only because at this point she's making her way too another part of the house. Remember after the second sound, or what I believed to be the second gunshot sound she then states to the woman on the phone she's no longer downstairs but upstairs. And compared to most of the people who had called 911 she's the one with the greatest vantage point on the line so far.

Some of the witnesses on 911 calls were asked and said they heard one gunshot. Whatever the second sound is on that tape, I think it's not a gunshot but some sort of other sound people are mistaking for a gun shot.

"Sanford police said Sunday that a check of the weapon showed only one shot was fired."

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/16/2697604/trayvon-martins-parents-criss.html#storylink=cpy

to me that the person screaming for help, had been silenced.

There were other witnesses also, and all of them basically confirm was is heard on this tape. Someone calling for help, a gunshot, and then silence

What I would like to see is a timeline. Eg, Zimmerman called the cops and there is a tape now of that call. I have read that it took the cops twenty minutes to arrive at the scene after that initial call. What was Zimmerman doing during those 20 minutes? And how far from his home was the teenager when the call was made? Was he 20 minutes away?

So, at what point in the twenty minutes since he made the call, did the shooting occur. Was it five, ten or fifteen minutes later? I guess we would know if we knew how long after the shooting the cops arrived. Or since they had received more calls after the shooting, did they send out different units?

and was injured before the bastard shot him.
They have all the evidence they need on those taped calls including the yelling and the shooting.
This was murder 1st degree if the fact is the person was shot while laying on the ground screaming for help.
2 callers described this, and one said they were wrestling after they argued, then one was down and screaming for help, next thing you hear is a shot.

Zimmerman is getting cover from the local cops on this.

'Execution' is something done by the state, after a trial. Even a 'gangland-style execution' has people deciding on it. But that would still be murder.

This one was the one I wanted to get out there because it had the closest vantage point from what I could hear---since the screaming was so clear and they were the earliest call as well.

There are 2 that tie the story together for me.

1. The old lady teacher who described it and kept referring to wishing she could have helped the injured screaming man.

2. The last one where the girls brother says he saw the man on the ground screaming and asking for help, and later heard the shot.


Thank you for all the work. This is a horrible story, I hope people are going to demand to have justice for this kid.

As the mother of two teenage boys, I found it very difficult to listen to this tape, but I felt it was my obligation as a citizen to do so. This case has upset me for days, but there have been lots of people - including some on DU - insisting that all is well and there is no evidence that anything bad happened, etc.

Anybody with any doubts needs to listen to this tape for themselves. The transcript is good but written words can't capture the visceral emotion of the child who is screaming for his life.

This case has me furious

Damn the apologists. This was murder, and since it was rich white on black murder, the rules are different.

George Zimmerman is white.

I can tell you for a fact it's very common and I'm from New York. My sister faced it more than I did. This is mainly between Blacks and Dominicans from my background. It didn't help we were proud Haitians.

what he did was still not ok.

"he [Zimmerman] has not been charged because there are no grounds to disprove his story of what happened."

Bullshit! There are witnesses to what happened and the damn tape. The poor kid was accosted and was screaming for help, it sounds like.

If Treyvon or any black man had pursued and shot a white guy just like that for the same reasons ("looks suspicious&quot , the black man would be in JAIL. Why isn't Zimmerman?

This is senseless.

This incident was disturbing and heartbreaking as the story was first told ... with every bit of further information it boggles the mind how this Zimmerman is allowed to walk the streets.

He executed a teenager (a person straddling child and adulthood) ... for simply "being."

My heart breaks for the young one, his parents and all of those that loved him.

My fervent prayer is that this scum vigilante neighborhood terrorist is brought to account for his depraved actions.

His nose was also broken by the kid, so it looks like justifiable homicide after all.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/17/trayvon-martin-killing-yo_n_1355795.html

He initiated the confrontation; he had not a shadow of legal authority or right to confront anyone on the public way. Therefore he has no right of self-defense, even under Florida law, if the confrontation he initiates goes sour for him.

The man killed an unarmed kid.

A broken nose means SQUAT when a dead body is involved.

That is murder in the first degree, upgraded from aggravated assault after he shot the kid.

Depraved indifference.

That is NOT a justifiable homicide.

Why the hell is Sanford Police covering this guy?

i can't see any case where his shooting the boy was justified.

Zimmerman is a hot-head wanna-be billy badass, racist murderer.

Yeah, we don't know exactly what happened when the armed racist vigilante chased down and confronted the unarmed black kid walking home from the store--after the 911 dispatchers told him not to. Except that the unarmed black kid ended up dead and the armed racist vigilante killer is walking around free.

you can now gun down anyone who appears threatening to you. Zimmerman was likely in compliance with the hilariously named "stand your ground" law