George Zimmerman's Wife Now Has Doubts About His Innocence
LatestShellie Zimmerman — wife of George Zimmerman, the man who shot unarmed teen Trayvon Martin — was on Today this morning, and seemed freaked out and conflicted as she told Matt Lauer “I know my husband” in one sentence and “I don’t know him” in another.
On September 5, Shellie filed for divorce. On September 9, George Zimmerman was taken into custody following a domestic dispute with Shellie, in which she claimed he was threatening her and her parents with a gun. Today, Shellie admitted to Lauer that she did not actually see a gun in George’s hand, “But I know my husband… I saw him in a stance — and a look in his eyes that I’ve never seen before, and he was putting his hand in his shirt, and saying, ‘Please step closer. Please step closer.’ I logically assumed he had a gun on him.” At the time, she said to a 911 operator: “I don’t know he’s capable of.” And this morning, she said it again: “I really don’t know what he’s capable of. This person that I’m married to, that I’m divorcing, I’ve kind of realized now that I don’t know him.”
Matt Lauer then asked Shellie why she didn’t press charges if she believed she’d been threatened with a gun. “In hindsight, I should have. I really regret that,” Shellie admitted. She pointed out that since she was on probation, she also would have gone to jail if she had pressed charges. A pretty good reason to hesitate.