Trayvon Martin Case Goes To Court As Racial Tension Escalates

George Zimmerman, 29, the son of a white father and Hispanic mother, is charged with second degree murder for shooting dead 17-year-old Trayvon Martin during a violent night-time struggle in a crime-plagued gated community in the central Florida city of Sanford in February last year. Mr Zimmerman's supporters deny that he racially targeted Trayvon. They insist that he only fired the lethal shot in self-defence to save his own life but say that the killing was hijacked by activists seeking a raci...