Wait! What?! Zimmerman kept the gun after shooting Trayvon.

[sabrina 1]

41. The other thing that stood out to me was the time between Zimmerman's call to the police and

killing. It was such a short period of time. When you look at the record of calls and read the police reports on when he was declared dead, I come up with a total of 17 minutes that passed from Zimmerman's first call to the police to the time he was declared dead.

The declaration of death was not made immediately so in my estimation, from the first call by Zimmerman to the time of the shooting 13 minutes passed. Since the cops were already on their way, they got there pretty quickly. Seems like about three or four minutes after they arrived, they declared that Trayvon was dead.

If Zimmerman had waited just 15 minutes, in his car, we never would have heard of this case.

And yes, they did treat Trayvon like a criminal because that is how he was described to them by Zimmerman. They arrived on the scene, they knew from all the calls by then, that someone had been shot. They also knew that Zimmerman had called to report a suspicious person. They probably did not know that the dispatcher had advised him not to follow Trayvon.

They should have tested Zimmerman for drugs and/or alcohol. They should have photographed his 'injuries', which maybe they did but we have not seen that yet. I am not sure if they kept his gun, but they should have. Mostly they should have checked Trayvon's cell phone and then contacted his family.

I think they just accepted Zimmerman's story and ran the investigation from that POV.

I don't know if you listened to the any of the calls, but call #7 I believe, from a woman who lives alone, gives an idea of how horrific the whole thing was for anyone who was there. She was devastated that a human life had been taken. The dispatcher stayed on the line with her, (she was shaking she said, crying and had no one she could call) for nearly 30 minutes because he became worried about her as she was so very upset. It is a very disturbing call but it captures the horror and the genuine humanity of the woman who could not grasp that a life had been taken right outside her window, practically.

The list of calls are here: http://www.sanfordfl.gov/index.html