Just before Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by neighborhood watch volunteer, George Zimmerman, he was on his cell phone speaking to a 16-year-old girl, abcnews.go.com reports.
The girl, whose phone records support her claim that she was on the phone with Trayvon minutes before he was killed, said he told her he was being followed by a strange man.
“He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on. He said he lost the man,” Martin’s friend reportedly told abcnews.go.com. “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.”
Trayvon said, “What, are you following me for,” and the man said, “What are you doing here.”
The girl said, it then sounded as if Trayvon was pushed as his head set fell off. She said she called him again, but he didn’t answer the phone. Then the telephone went dead.
The shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin has sparked outrage not only in Central Florida but all across the country, with calls for justice for the unarmed black teen.
Zimmerman, to date, has not been arrested or charged with a crime. He told police, he acted in self-defense when he shot Trayvon.
But, based on 911 calls released last Friday by the Sanford Police Department, screams for help and sounds of a scuffle between Trayvon and Zimmerman could be heard.
Sybriana Fulton, Trayvon’s mother has said that the screams for help came from her son.
Fulton said on the TODAY’s Show Monday that she believes her son was targeted because of the ‘color of his skin.’
“He (Zimmerman) was reacting to the color of his skin,” she said. ” He committed no crime. My son wasn’t doing anything but walking on the sidewalk and I just don’t understand why this situation got out of control.”
Fulton added that, “I am pretty sure my son tried to get away. He didn’t know who this guy was. He saw him as a stranger. So he was trying to just get away from the situation.”
Zimmerman, who placed the first call to 911 when he spotted, a “suspicious person,” according to him, inside the gated community in Sanford, was told by police not to follow him.
Zimmerman did just the opposite and followed Trayvon, anyway.
Listen to George Zimmerman’s 911 call on February 26, just before he shot and killed Trayvon Martin.
Last week, the police department turned over the results of their investigation to State Attorney Wolfinger who will decide whether or not Zimmerman should be charged or send the case to a grand jury for a decision.
On Monday night, the FBI said it is opening an investigation into the fatal shooting.
The U.S. Justice Department also announced plans to send a team to investigate and to help calm tensions in the community.
Congresswoman Corrine Brown (D-FL), along with Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett and City Manager Norton Bonapart will meet today with Department of Justice officials in Washington.
Meanwhile, a series of protest and rallies are planned all week long. Later today, the NAACP will hold a town hall meeting at the Allen Chapel AME Church in Sanford.
“It is time for the Police Department to give an account of its action in this case because we do not agree with this so called self-defense finding,” Seminole County Branch President, Turner Clayton, Jr., said in a statement.
And on Thursday, the Rev. Al Sharpton, civil rights activist and MSNBC host of ‘Politics Nation’ will lead a will lead a rally at the First Shiloh Baptist Church in Sanford, beginning at 7:00 p.m.
An online petition calling on the Seminole County State Attorney Norm Wolfinger to prosecute Zimmerman has already collected more than 500,000 signatures.
