Accused murderer George Zimmerman reenacted for cops how Trayvon Martin allegedly jumped him and reached for his gun, painting the unarmed Florida teen as the aggressor in the deadly encounter.
Zimmerman led Sanford police through every step of the infamous showdown, one day after he blew away Martin during a Feb. 26 shooting that’s landed the neighborhood watch volunteer in jail, charged with murder, according to ABC News.
The dramatic blow-by-blow was made public today by defense lawyers, in the most detailed statement yet attributed to Zimmerman.
“He said ‘Yo you got a problem?'” Zimmerman mimicked Martin to cops at the scene of the crime. “And I turned around and said ‘Naw I don’t have a problem man.'”
Zimmerman continued: “He said ‘You got a problem now’ … and he punched me in the face.”
The defendant claimed Martin gained the upper hand and start pummeling him mercilessly.
“My head was on the cement and he kept slamming it and slamming it,” Zimmerman said.
“It felt like my head was going to explode and I felt I was going to lose consciousness.”
That’s when, Zimmerman claimed, Martin spotted the volunteer’s gun.
“I feel like he saw it,” Zimmerman said. “He looked at it and he said ‘You’re going to die tonight mother f–ker and he reached for it.”
It was in that kill-or-be-killed moment, Zimmerman said, that he acted in self-defense.
“And I grabbed it and I just grabbed my firearm and shot him,” the defendant told cops.