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George Zimmerman’s parents launch their own fundraising website

Last updated Saturday, July 28, 2012 - 7:51am

ORLANDO, Fla. - George Zimmerman’s parents, Robert and Gladys, appear to have recently launched a fundraising website in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting to help with living expenses.

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George Zimmerman is seen in police mug shot provided by the Orange County, Fla., Jail, via The Mimai Herald, from a 2005 arrest. Zimmerman is the neighborhood watch captain who shot unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, 17, in a gated community in Sanford, Fla. in February 2012. (AP Photo/Orange County Jail via Miami Herald)

Gun that killed Florida teen was fired once not twice by crime watch volunteer

Bianca Prieto, Rene Stutzman The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 10:15am

SANFORD, Fla. -- The handgun that killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black 17-year-old, was fired once -- not twice -- by a neighborhood crime watch volunteer, according to new information obtained by the Orlando Sentinel.

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Transplant surgeon killed by patient

Bianca Prieto, Linda Shrieves, The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Friday, May 27, 2011 - 2:32pm

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The person who gunned down a Florida transplant surgeon Thursday night was a patient who then killed himself.

The patient, 53-year-old Nelson Flecha of Orange City, Fla., shot Dr. Dmitriy A. Nikitin in a parking garage at Florida Hospital's main campus in Orlando, police told The Orlando Sentinel Friday morning.

Police said video surveillance taken from the garage supports the theory that Flecha targeted Nikitin, 41, though it wasn't clear why.

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