Trayvon Martin’s cellphone contained a trove of images of guns and drugs — and text messages in which he boasted about smoking pot, getting into fights and being kicked out of his mother’s house for skipping classes, it was revealed yesterday.
Defense attorneys released the images as they prepare to claim that neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman shot the unarmed black teenager in self-defense last year.
One image shows a handgun being held by a black teen, though it is unclear whose hand it was. Another shows Martin blowing what appears to be marijuana smoke and flipping off the camera.
In a text message, he bragged about getting into a fight.
Zimmerman’s attorneys are battling prosecutors to use the records to suggest their client shot Martin in self-defense.
“If they had suggested that Trayvon is nonviolent and that George is the aggressor, I think that makes evidence of the fighting he has been involved with in the past relevant,” said lawyer Mark O’Mara, whose client is pleading not guilty to second-degree murder.