ORLANDO, Fla. – When George Zimmerman tries to convince a judge or a jury that he fatally shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in self-defence, the evidence in the case appears to be a mixed bag.
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ORLANDO, Fla. Trayvon Martin was shot through the heart at close range. George Zimmerman had a broken nose, bruises and bloody cuts on the back of his head.
The lead investigator in the case wanted to charge Zimmerman with manslaughter in the weeks after the shooting but was overruled.
These are among the details revealed in nearly 200 pages of documents, photos and audio recordings released Thursday in a case that’s riveted the nation.
The evidence supports Zimmerman’s contention that he was involved in a fight when he fired the fatal shot Feb. 26. It also bolsters the argument of Martin’s parents that the confrontation could have been avoided if not for Zimmerman’s actions.
Zimmerman was charged last month with second-degree murder. He has said Martin, 17, attacked him and he shot the unarmed teenager in self-defense.
Martin’s shooting sparked nationwide rallies calling for Zimmerman’s arrest and focused public attention on racial profiling, gun laws and a raft of “stand your ground” laws passed in recent years that have expanded the legal grounds for justifiable homicide.
Martin’s autopsy indicated medical examiners found THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, when they tested Martin’s blood and urine. The amount described in the autopsy report is such a low level that it would have played no role in Martin’s behavior, said Larry Kobilinsky, a professor of forensic science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.
Martin had been taken by his father to Sanford from his home in Miami Gardens after he was suspended from school when traces of marijuana were found in his book bag.
A police report shows the teen had been shot once in the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene. The autopsy says the fatal shot was fired from no more than 18 inches away.
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ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – An FBI expert found crucial evidence in the Trayvon Martin case was inconclusive, saying it was impossible to tell if the voice screaming for help belonged to the black Florida teenager or his shooter George Zimmerman just before the neighborhood watch captain pulled the trigger. That detail came from a mass of evidence made public on Thursday in the case that …
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Posted: Saturday, May 19, 2012 4:00 am | Updated: 6:43 am, Sat May 19, 2012.
DeAundray Rossum may have been betrayed by a high school buddy.
Longview police have arrested one suspect who, according to a search warrant filed Friday, is linked to Tuesdays shooting death of the former Kilgore College football player.
Brendan Xavier Douglas was taken into custody Thursday at Good Shepherd Medical Center on a warrant for an earlier aggravated robbery.
Douglas and Rossum had known each other since they attended Kilgore High School together, said Brenda Westmoreland, Rossums great aunt.
Documents filed in connection with the search warrant indicate two men who were in the car with Rossum at the time of his death identified 22-year-old Douglas as a key player in events leading up to an apparent ambush in an apartment complex parking lot on Signal Hill Drive in South Lawrence. Douglas has not been identified as a shooter in the incident.
Investigators think Douglas cell phone may hold a call history, contacts, photographs, videos, audio recordings and digital information that will be key to solving the case, documents show.
The search warrant and related documents tell the story of what investigators have pieced together about events leading up to the shootings just before 10 p.m. Tuesday.
Rossum was killed and two others were wounded in a hail of gunfire during an apparent robbery attempt, the investigating officer has determined. All three victims were in the same car at the time of the shooting.
The two wounded men who were in the car told investigators they were with Rossum when he picked up Douglas in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant on Estes Parkway earlier in the evening.
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WICHITA, Kan. – The mother of a 14-year-old boy says a cellphone video depicting her son struggling to stand on two broken legs is proof that her son was harmed while attending a Kansas military school and supports claims in a federal lawsuit that the school encouraged a culture of abuse.
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GREENWICH The search for missing Schuylerville High School senior has reached a grim conclusion: state police confirmed Thursday that Jesse Cales body was found in the Hudson River near where he was last seen.
Cale disappeared while looking for firewood in Greenwich last Friday night. He, his father and two family friends had started a campfire, but decided they needed more firewood to be able to cook hot dogs. Cale walked into the woods to gather firewood and never returned.
Paul Byers who was Uncle Paul to Cale was at the campfire last weekend and was one of the people who identified Cales body Thursday afternoon.
I had wanted to do one final walk-through, said Byers, who said he went out into the woods alone Thursday afternoon. He ran into Eric Perry, who also was doing a walk-through of the area where Cale went missing.
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The mother of a 14-year-old boy says a cellphone video depicting her son struggling to stand on two broken legs is proof that her son was harmed while attending a Kansas military school and supports claims in a federal lawsuit that the school encouraged a culture of abuse.
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Dr. Richard V. Aghababian, the founding chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School who is now retired, was elected to lead the Massachusetts Medical Society at the groups annual meeting Thursday morning.
Aghababian, who is from Southborough, will succeed Worcester pediatrician Dr. Lynda Young for a one-year term starting next week. He has a long history of involvement with the society, which represents about 24,000 physicians and medical students in the state.
Aghababian attended Harvard College and studied medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He teaches and writes about disaster response and preparedness, and he is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Dr. Ronald W. Dunlap of South Shore Cardiology in Weymouth was elected president-elect. Dr. Richard S. Pieters, Jr., a radiation oncologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center was chosen as vice president.
Here are the results of the other elections, from the press release:
Deanna P. Ricker, M.D., of Cambridge, a board-certified ophthalmologist in Needham, was re-elected Secretary-Treasurer; Peter B. Kang, M.D., of Brookline, a pediatric neurologist and physician/scientist at Childrens Hospital Boston, was re-elected Assistant Secretary-Treasurer; Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, M.D., M.P.H., an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and an Assistant-in-Anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital, was elected Speaker of the House of Delegates; David A. Rosman, M.D., M.B.A., of Jamaica Plain, Medical Director of Mass General Imaging in Worcester and an Assistant Radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, was elected Vice Speaker of the House of Delegates.
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One well-known U.S. senator and Kentucky native came to the mountains to speak to medical school graduates. Some might say he could relate more to these students as he has not always been involved solely in politics.
Sen. Rand Paul (R) had uplifting words for the University of Pikevilles School of Osteopathic Medicine graduates.
Paul encouraged the young doctors to overcome the obstacles of becoming a physician, such as caring too little, too much and even challenging the norm when necessary.
Don’t let them tell you it can’t be done, think outside the box, said Paul. Be your own man, or your own woman.
This was the senators first commencement speech and he said it was special to speak to medical school graduates as he is a doctor.
I still remember those young, heady days when I was first becoming a physician and what they have to look forward to and what the community has to look forward to having these young doctors in their region of the mountains, said Paul.
Paul said this was a new experience and he admitted he was nervous.
I was a bit nervous, even though I have now given thousands of speeches, said Paul. Particularly, because this is a little bit different than the red meat and potatoes of politics.
Paul said the speech was more about his experiences in medicine and what the graduates should expect and how they choose their path.
This is the first class to graduate since the college became a university. UPIKE President Paul Patton says his speech hit home.
