Usually when someone does something with criminal intent they try to cover it up. I think its astonishing how much forensic evidence supports the story exactly as Zimmerman has reported it.
There are many people who are saying Zimmerman should not have followed Trayvon and if he did not the shooting would have never happened. I believe this argument is completely false.
There were two stages of Zimmerman’s interactions with Trayvon. One was at the clubhouse. It appears on the non emergency call to authorities that Zimmerman was afraid of the suspect. In a hushed tone he told the operator that it appears that Trayvon is “checking me out”. The operator tells Zimmerman can you tell me where he is now? Zimmerman then relates that he lost him because he started running. Zimmerman then gets out of the clubhouse parking spot with his vehicle and goes in the direction that Trayvon went. To this point no tells Zimmerman not to follow.
The next stage starts when we hear Zimmerman again tell the operator that he lost him and try unsuccessfully to pinpoint his location. He tells the operator that he will try to find Trayvon. The operator suggests that he does not have to. Zimmerman says okay. Around this time Zimmerman mutters “F— punks always get away”.
Now comes the conflicting stories. The Prosecution wants to claim that his cursing shows ill will and a intent to kill when he went supposedly went after Trayvon.
The problem is we have zero evidence at this point that Zimmerman tried to follow Trayvon. Zimmerman in his reenactment clearly says he went across the T to find a lit area so he can see a house address so the police know where to meet him. It’s also hard to believe that a guy who had earlier been intimidated by Trayvon checking him out all of a sudden decided that he is unafraid to follow him. It is far more plausible that Zimmerman believed that Trayvon ran away and wasn’t coming back. Since he himself had told the dispatcher “F— punks always get away”. Since he felt that Trayvon already had left the area he felt comfortable walking around to look for a house address. It also makes sense why he got so startled when Trayvon confronted him because he believed that Trayvon had already left.
Any other theory is unsupported and purely speculation.