Trayvon Benjamin Martin, a 17-year-old African-American, was fatally shot on the evening of February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida. Martin was visiting his father and his father's fiancée at her townhouse in The Retreat at Twin Lakes, a gated community. On that fateful evening, Martin was returning from a convenience store, where he had purchased a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea. He was walking back to the townhouse when he was noticed by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old neighborhood watc
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