There really is a heaping helping of deja vu now that details are coming out about Trayvon Martin killer George Zimmerman’s being detained briefly after a domestic disturbance:
George Zimmerman was questioned Monday in Central Florida after his estranged wife called police saying he threatened her with a gun, but has not been charged.
ake Mary police say they were called around 2:30 p.m. to the Sprucewood Road home owned by Shellie Zimmerman’s parents, David and Machelle Dean.
According to Lake Mary Police Chief Steve Bracknell, Shellie Zimmerman called 911 claiming George Zimmerman had a gun and was making threats.
“He’s in his car and he continually has his hand on his gun and he keeps saying ‘step closer’ and he’s just threatening all of us,” Shellie Zimmerman said in the 911 call, adding that George Zimmerman was “trying to shut the garage door” on her.
“He punched my dad in the nose my dad has a mark on the nose. I saw his glasses were on the floor,” Shellie Zimmerman said in the call. He then accosted my father then took my iPad out of my hands. He then smashed it and cut it with a pocketknife, and there is a Lake Mary city worker across the street that I believe saw all of it.”
Shellie Zimmerman and her father were not speaking to police at first and waited for their attorney to arrive. They left just after 4 p.m.
George Zimmerman is cooperating and is calm, according to police, but is accusing Shellie Zimmerman of being the aggressor in the conflict.
So far no arrests have been made and he is no longer in “investigative detention.”
Police are investigating the incident as a domestic battery and have retrieved the home surveillance videos from David Dean, Shellie’s father.
“I don’t know what he’s capable of,” Shellie Zimmerman said in the call. “I’m really scared.”
Here’s THE AUDIO of her call to police. LISTEN CLOSELY:
This audio most assuredly will make the many Americans who believe Zimmerman’s account of his encounter with Martin was not accurate believe even moreso that the teenager was shot by an aggressive neighborhood watch commander who liked the feel of a gun.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.