What is Travon Martin's background?

Answer 1

Not a whole lot of information is available about Travon Martin's background, other than he was a high school student. Most of the available information centers around the case.

If you are unfamiliar with what happened to Travon Martin, 17-year old Martin was walking home through a gated Florida community visiting his father's fiancee. While walking, Martin was seen and followed by a armed neighborhood watchman, George Zimmerman. According to Florida law, neighborhood Watchmen are not allowed to carry weapons.

Zimmerman called the Sanford Police Department to report Martin's behavior as suspicious. Responders from the Sanford Police told Zimmerman to not follow Martin, but he ignored those orders. At the same time, Martin was on his cell phone talking to his girlfriend and said that he was being followed by a man that that made him fearful.

Shortly afterwards, there was an altercation, which ended with Zimmerman fatally shooting Martin once in the chest at close range.

Initially, local police chose not to follow up on Zimmerman and nothing was done until the case drew national attention. The case was elevated to the State level and the prosecutor found adequate evidence to charge Zimmerman of Second Degree Murder.

Zimmerman was arrested and later released on bail. On June 1, 2012, Judge Lester granted a Motion to Revoke Bond due to Zimmerman and his wife had falsely claiming their accepts and failing to report more than $130,000 in their account and had been recorded using code while in jail to discuss how much money had been obtained from the website that they setup to help pay for a defense.