He was found with a plastic bag with ‘residue’ that is not quite posession. Actually it is because of this that he is dead, that he was suspended. Not that he was of age, but high school kids do drink. Would he have been suspended with an empty bottle of beer actually an emply water bottle which might have contained beer. Still he has not issues with the law.
I can’t see Zimmerman fearing for his life. While some high school kids are very strong and big, he was not as big as Zimmerman at all. Zimmerman should have talked his way out of it, as I have done many times when I lived in NY. But he had the gun so he was a big man.
It is highly likely that Martin asked why he was being followed and words were exchanged. But in the final analysis, he was not a person in trouble with the law before.
“He was suspended from school for marijuana possession. A deleted Twitter account was found through web archives which had pictures of him dressed as a gang member, making gang signs, and writing very violent messages”