George Zimmerman charged with felony after allegedly pointing gun at girlfriend

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- 3 --><br /><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4973891917352186" data-ad-slot="2995338919" style="display: inline-block; height: 250px; width: 300px;"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><div><h1 style="border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 30px; line-height: 33px; margin: 15px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;">George Zimmerman charged with felony after allegedly pointing gun at girlfriend</h1></div><div><a href="http://www.cnn.com/">http://www.cnn.com</a></div><div><br /></div><div><img alt="Watch this video" src="http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/131118162640-zimmerman-1118-story-top.jpg" /></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(CNN)</strong> -- George Zimmerman was charged Monday with felony aggravated assault after allegedly pointing a shotgun at his girlfriend, according to Dennis Lemma, chief deputy with the Seminole County, Florida, Sheriff's Office.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph2" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zimmerman, who was acquitted earlier this year of murdering teenager Trayvon Martin, was arrested after the incident at the home of Samantha Scheibe, Lemma said. He also was charged with two misdemeanors -- domestic violence battery and criminal mischief -- in connection with the same incident, Lemma said.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zimmerman is being held in jail without bail and will make his first appearance in front of a judge Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. ET.</div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Differing 911 calls</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">According to a police report on the incident, Scheibe said that after an argument Zimmerman broke a table with a shotgun then pointed it at her "for a minute."</span></strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph6" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Scheibe called 911 at 12:30 E.T., Lemma said.</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph7" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">On a 911 call recording released by police, a woman can be heard telling authorities: "He's inside my house breaking all my (things) because I asked him to leave."</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph8" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The woman then says to someone at the house, "I'm doing this again? You just broke my glass table. You just broke my sunglasses and you put your gun in my freaking face and told me to get the (expletive) out."</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph9" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A man is heard telling her to calm down, but then she tells the dispatcher that the man just pushed her out of the house and locked the door.</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph10" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">On a separate 911 call, a man calls to report that his girlfriend was "for lack of a better term, going crazy on me" and throwing his things out. The caller says the woman is outside with police.</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph11" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">When asked why he is calling, the man says, "I just want everyone to know the truth."</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph12" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">He says he never pulled a firearm and that it is in a bag, locked. He claims she was the one who broke the table.</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph13" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">When deputies arrived at the house, Scheibe gave them a key. When they pushed open the door -- which was blocked by several small pieces of furniture -- they found Zimmerman, who was sitting and unarmed, Lemma said. He was passive and cooperative, Lemma said.</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph14" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The sheriff's office was seeking a search warrant to look for two guns deputies believed were inside the home, he said. According to the police report, Zimmerman had locked up the guns before police arrived.</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph15" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Recent contact with authorities</strong></strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph16" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is one of several brushes that Zimmerman has had with law enforcement since he was acquitted this year of murder and manslaughter in the 2012 shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin.</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph17" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Earlier this month, police in Lake Mary, Florida, said no charges would result from an alleged domestic dispute in September between George Zimmerman and his estranged wife, Shellie Zimmerman.</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph18" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shellie Zimmerman <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/26/justice/shellie-zimmerman-interview/" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">said in September</a> that she has doubts about his innocence in the Trayvon Martin case.</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph19" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Since his acquittal in the Martin case, Zimmerman also has been stopped for speeding twice. He was pulled over the first time in Forney, Texas, in July and told the police officer he had a concealed weapon permit and a gun in his glove compartment. The officer wrote on his incident report that he gave Zimmerman a verbal warning.</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph20" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Zimmerman was pulled over in early September going 60 mph in a 45-mph zone in Lake Mary and received a $256 ticket. He was not carrying a weapon at the time.</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph21" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">National headlines</strong></strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph22" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Zimmerman fatally shot Martin in the Sanford neighborhood where Zimmerman and Martin's father lived in February 2012. Zimmerman, who is Hispanic, had a confrontation with the unarmed African-American teen after calling police to report a suspicious person, and he said he shot Martin, 17, in self-defense.</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph23" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Zimmerman was acquitted by a six-person jury in July on second-degree murder and manslaughter charges.</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph24" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The high-profile case sparked a heated nationwide discussion of race as well as debate over Florida's "stand your ground" law.</strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph25" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">His attorney in the murder trial, Mark O'Mara, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/10/justice/zimmerman-lawyer/" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">no longer represents him.</a></strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph26" style="border: 0px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/26/justice/shellie-zimmerman-interview/index.html" style="border: 0px; color: #004276; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Zimmerman's wife has doubts about his innocence</a></strong></div><br /><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></div><div class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></strong></div></div></div>

George Zimmerman charged with felony after allegedly pointing gun at girlfriend

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