Msnbc.com staff and NBC News reports:
A grand jury will investigate the death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old shot to death in a gated community in Florida on Feb. 26, state attorney Norm Wolfinger announced Tuesday.
Martin was shot by George Zimmerman, a resident who was patrolling the gated community in his car. Martin was returning from a convenience store where he had just purchased candy and iced tea.
Law enforcement officers did not arrest Zimmermen after the incident, citing Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law that allows potential crime victims who are “in fear of great bodily injury” to use deadly force in public areas. Critics of the 2005 law call it the “Shoot first (ask questions later) law.
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- Trayvon Martin case to go to grand jury
- Mom: Trayvon Martin was killed because of ‘the color of his skin
- Feds to probe death of Florida teen
