State evidence released today in the George Zimmerman second-degree murder case shows new details from a state crime lab that found Zimmerman's DNA on Trayvon Martin, the teenager he shot to death, and Trayvon's DNA on him. <\/p>\n
But the gun that Zimmerman used to kill Trayvon that night a gun that Zimmerman told police the teenager had reached for - revealed no evidence that Trayvon touched it. <\/p>\n
State scientists checked several parts of the 9 mm handgun: its grip, trigger, slide and holster. They found Zimmerman's DNA and that belonging to other unidentifiable people but none that matched Trayvon, records show. <\/p>\n
The gun evidence is important because Zimmerman told Sanford police he opened fire only after the 17-year-old pinned him to the ground and reached for the gun he wore holstered on his waist. <\/p>\n
In a re-enactment for Sanford police the next day, Zimmerman did not say or show that the two had struggled over the gun, only that Trayvon had extended his hand toward it. <\/p>\n
The 28-year-old Zimmerman killed Trayvon, a Miami Gardens high school junior, Feb. 26 in Sanford. <\/p>\n
Zimmerman says he acted in self-defense. Prosecutors say Zimmerman, a Neighborhood Watch volunteer, spotted the black teenager, profiled him, assumed he was about to commit a crime, began following him then murdered him. <\/p>\n
Prosecutors today released to the public several hundred pages of evidence. It included no bombshells. <\/p>\n
The DNA evidence was among the most compelling because it confirmed that Zimmerman and Trayvon had been in extremely close contact. <\/p>\n
Several neighbors reported seeing one on top of the other in a fight that left one of them screaming, Zimmerman with a broken nose and small gashes to his head and Trayvon dead from a gunshot wound to the heart. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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