After using the money from his defense fund to post 10 percent of his $1 Million bond, George Zimmerman has holed up in a safe house with 24-hour protection from a private security team. Zimmerman will remain in hiding as he awaits trial after being charged with second-degree murder for killing Trayvon Martin back in February. [Read More]

Remember the website George Zimmerman launched (second image) to solicit money for his legal expenses? Well, it turns out that the old-school layout didn’t stop it from raising. Zimmerman’s attorney Mark O’Mara popped up on Anderson Cooper 360, saying that he learned about the money Wednesday and will tell a judge today. The site has been shut down due to Zimmerman’s social media ban, but O’Mara is starting a new defense fund for his client. [Read More]

In an interview with Bay News, George Zimmerman’s lawyer Mark O’Mara revealed that Zimmerman wants to meet with Trayvon Martin’s parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton. Though, O’Mara didn’t disclose why his client wants to meet the parents of the teenager he killed, he said that it would be private, if it ever occurred. O’Mara said that he’s mentioned the idea “a couple of times about the conversation that, hopefully, will occur directly to the Martin family, a private conversation.” [Read More]

Neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman made his first court appearance Thursday on a second-degree murder charge in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, as a court document provided new details on the prosecution's case.

George Zimmerman, the Neighborhood Watch volunteer who shot an unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, was charged with second-degree murder in the black teenager’s death in Sanford, Florida, a state prosecutor said. The decision was announced at a press conference today in Jacksonville. The youth’s death triggered protests in several U.S. cities and drew comment from President Barack Obama after officials initially declined to prosecute Zimmerman.  [Watch & Read More]

A police surveillance video taken the night that Trayvon Martin was shot dead shows no blood or bruises on George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who says he shot Martin after he was punched in the nose, knocked down and had his head slammed into the ground.

The surveillance video, which was obtained exclusively by ABC News, shows Zimmerman arriving in a police cruiser. As he exits the car, his hands are cuffed behind his back. Zimmerman is frisked and then led down a series of hallways, still cuffed.

The shooting of the unarmed African-American teenager by a neighborhood watch volunteer in a Sanford neighborhood renewed the national conversation about race relations, gun laws, even how young men dress.

It sparked a national furor that burned all the way to the White House, prompting President Barack Obama last week to call for national soul-searching to discover how something so tragic could happen. [See & Read More]