28-year-old george zimmerman who was the volunteer neighborhood watch captain who on that night, rainy night here in sanford, florida, encountered 17-year-old trayvon martin. pulled a gun and shot and killed him. the details of coarse course of what we hope to get some sort of explanation from the prosecutor. all along it s been only one eyewitness to the event. and that is george zimmerman himself. who has said he was acting in self-defense. and he was relying on florida s stand your ground law to basically say, he should not be charged. and of course, the sanford police department and the state attorney here agreed with that initial assessment. but then we saw quite an outpouring of anger and really a demand for reexamination. so the governor of florida appointed a special prosecutor and that takes us to where we are today. she is going to announce at 6:00, according to our colleague pete williams, who has sources in theaw7$i federal government have been appraised of this.
pulled a gun and shot and killed him. the details of coarse course of what we hope to get some sort of explanation from the prosecutor. all along it s been only one eyewitness to the event. and that is george zimmerman himself. who has said he was acting in self-defense. and he was relying on florida s stand your ground law to basically say, he should not be charged. and of course, the sanford police department and the state attorney here agreed with that initial assessment. but then we saw quite an outpouring of anger and really a demand for reexamination. so the governor of florida appointed a special prosecutor and that takes us to where we are today. she is going to announce at 6:00, according to our colleague pete williams, who has sources in theaw7$i federal government have been appraised of this. she will announce charges. we re not sure what charges will be. we know it won t be on the table is first degree murder. that is because it would require a grand jury to brin
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