Crime 17 year old boy killed by Neighborhood Watch Captain over Skittles and Ice Tea

[The Helper]

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - The family of a 17-year-old African-American boy shot to death last month in his gated Florida community by a white Neighborhood Watch captain wants to see the captain arrested, the family's lawyer said on Wednesday.

Trayvon Martin was shot dead after he took a break from watching NBA All-Star game television coverage to walk 10 minutes to a convenience store to buy snacks including Skittles candy requested by his 13-year-old brother, Chad, the family's lawyer Ben Crump said.

"He was a good kid," Crump said in an interview, adding that the family would issue a call for the Watch captain's arrest at a news conference on Thursday. "On his way home, a Neighborhood Watch loose cannon shot and killed him."

Trayvon, who lived in Miami with his mother, had been visiting his father and stepmother in a gated townhome community called The Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford, 20 miles north of Orlando.

As Trayvon returned to the townhome, Sanford police received a 911 call reporting a suspicious person.

Although names are blacked out on the police report, Crump and media reports at the time of the shooting identified the caller as George Zimmerman who is listed in the community's newsletter as the Neighborhood Watch captain.

Without waiting for police to arrive, Crump said, Zimmerman confronted Trayvon, who was on the sidewalk near his home. By the time police got there, Trayvon was dead of a single gunshot to the chest.

"What do the police find in his pocket? Skittles," Crump said. "A can of Arizona ice tea in his jacket pocket and Skittles in his front pocket for his brother Chad."

 

[Fatmankev]

This is sickening, especially so after listening to the 911 calls.

You can hear him crying for help in the background of one neighbor's 911 call, only to be silenced by a gunshot. In the phone call the neighborhood watch captain made to the police, they tell him they don't need him to pursue the kid, and he mutters something about, "Those assholes always get away."
Just fucked up, and straight up bullshit that he might get out of it on self-defense. I swear, between this and Casey Anthony, Florida really needs to revise some of its state laws. Ridiculous.

 

[xPass]

I'm suspecting racism.

 

[xxxtrickyxxx]

I would like to see a followup on this posted here if that happens. I want to see this guy prosecuted.

 

[The Helper]

If you type the boys name into google, Trayvon Martin, you will see some websites that follow it, mostly civil rights sites.

 

[Weegee]

Makes my blood boil in the sort of "can't wait to see karma torture you to death and while you scream for help as we cut out your eyeballs and feed them to you" sort of way..

What? I thought that this was a normal feeling.. >

 

[camelCase]

Pretty normal, in this case, I think =P

 

[Varine]

Skittles: Serious kittle Shit. Why? because I can't think of an acronym for KITTLE.

 

[The Helper]

This turned out to not quite be how it was portrayed by the media. I remember when I posted this originally it came with a picture of the kid when he was like 12 and it clearly says in the article he was 17 and the way he looked in real life was not that 12 year old. That skittles and Iced teas was Skittles and Purple whatever. That goes with cough medicine to make Purple Drank. This case was a clear case of the media hijacking the view of a real life tragedy and to this day you will still see pictures of that 12 year kid and not the 17 year old over 6 feet tall young man that was the reality. A clear tragedy for sure but it was not like the Media portrayed or how this article did before I took that picture out.