I live in the same state. Xant's facts are correct. Zimmerman was assaulted on his way back to his car, and Trayvon's cell phone logs are recorded as him stating he's going to get the guy following him.
Of course, no one's mentioned the 2 previous break ins that neighborhood had. That's why all of this went down the way it did. Several robberies had happened already, thus the local watch was on a much higher alert for less than savory suspects. Zimmerman happened to see one and called police like he should.
But, like all punks/teenagers, Trayvon wasn't going to let some dude follow him and confronted Zimmerman. Fight results, Trayvon dies. Then the media and bullshit takes hold and it goes from simple court case to "CIVIL RIGHTS ABUSE! KILL THE KKK BASTARD!" For Example:
Between March 19 and 27, 2012, the NBC Nightly News, NBC's Today show, and NBC's network-owned Miami affiliate WTVJ[368] ran segments which misleadingly merged parts of Zimmerman's call
SO, yea. I'm embittered about the whole thing. I've watched all the news that you shits DON"T get cause it's local news and not covered by national media sources and what I saw there was far better coverage than that biased shit you get on national media. Trust me, that case was spun all the way to hell to make everyone believe he was guilty from the start and to try and influence whatever it could.
Oh and just a FYI: 12 BLACK WOMEN, found him innocent. Sure race shouldn't matter, but that shows that an IMPARTIAL decision was reached.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin