If Zimmerman was hurt so badly, why didn't he accept help when it was offered?

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71. Z never asked for help subduing Martin

The Asian guy with the flashlight did not arrive until after Z was already off of Martin. He testified he first encountered Z when Z walked up to him with his cellphone to his ear. The man then asked him if he needed to call 911 for him, Z hung up his phone and told him that he already did.

At least two other witnesses testified that the Asian man with the flashlight showed up after they witnessed Zimmerman pacing. One of them said that they saw Z pace up and down 2 or three times (which I think was the flashlight man's wife) and another one said they saw him pacing until the guy with the flashlight arrived but not pacing up and back (which just says they weren't watching that long.

It was quite some time before the guy with the flashlight showed up on the scene because he testified that after hearing the gunshot he went out to their garage at the front of the house, grabbed a flashlight, exited the house through the garage at the front of the house, and then leisurely walked past the fronts of a few houses to where the sidewalk at the top of the "T" started, walked down the top of the "T" to the long arm of the "T" in the middle past the side of the house on the end of the row which had to have taken some significant amount of time. And we know that following the gunshot there was no more screaming or calls for help, so Z had a lot of time to do all this pacing up and down on the phone to whoever he was calling (I don't think he ever did make a call to 911 after he shot Martin, and if he didn't who in the hell was he talking to?). The first officer on the scene also arrived shortly after the guy with the flashlight (Z and the guy with the flashlight only had enough time for him to ask if he needed him to call 911 and to ask what caliber he used which is a damned odd question. But he never asked if Z needed medical care sine he testified he didn't seem badly hurt, and then he took a photo of the back of Z's head. At that point the police officer showed up and testified that both men were standing talking a distance away from the body.

But as to why Zimmerman didn't want to go to the hospital when he was asked several times by EMT's and the police later at the station he repeatedly said no. He also went to work the next day and was told he could not come back to work until he had seen a doctor and gotten permission to return which was the only reason he went to the doctor the next day. Keep in mind that Z's friend that wrote the book (without clarifying anything with Z about the incident to write the book) testified that they didn't leave the police station until 1am or as late as 2am that night. If Z didn't get home until that late he sure didn't think he was injured so badly as to get up and go to work in the morning.