First images of the iconic hooded sweatshirt and other blood-soaked clothing worn by slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin were released Thursday as part of a mounting case against the neighborhood watch volunteer accused of fatally shooting him. 
 
 The black-and-white photos were included as evidence from prosecutors — part of 284 pages of documents compiled by the FBI and Florida law enforcement conducting a civil rights investigation. 
 
 One official suggested George Zimmerman — who stands trial for second-degree murder — profiled the unarmed 17-year-old because of what he was wearing, and not because he was black. 
 
 Christopher Serino, a police investigator in Sanford, Fla., “believes that when Zimmerman saw Martin in a hoody, Zimmerman took it upon himself to view Martin as acting suspicious,” according to one of the documents, ABC News reported. 
 
 Serino also told federal investigators that local gangs typically dressed in hoodies, and while Zimmerman, 28, may have had a “little hero complex,” there was no evidence to suggest he was a racist, according to CBS affiliate WTSP in St. Petersburg. 
 
 Zimmerman’s father is white and his mother is Hispanic. 
 
 On Feb. 26, Martin was walking through a gated condo complex in Sanford, where his father’s fiance lived, when he bumped into Zimmerman, who was a neighborhood watchman there. 
 
 Zimmerman claims he mistook Martin for a burglar, and while they scuffled, he shot the teen out of self-defense under the state’s “stand your ground” law. 
 
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 Documents released Thursday said officers found Zimmerman had lacerations to his head, although they disagreed about whether he had a broken nose. The killing of Martin sparked nationwide protests — and his sweatshirt became a symbol and call against racial profiling. In photos of Martin’s clothing, provided by the State Attorney’s office, the Fruit of the Loom hoodie is described as being a “size L” with “faint/slight orange discoloration.” The Nike sweatshirt Martin was reportedly wearing underneath is also a large size and has a bullet hole and dark bloodied splotch on the chest area. Martin was shot directly in the chest, police said. The documents released Thursday also appear to clear up a racially-charged comment Zimmerman is heard making on a 911 call to police the night of the shooting. Although it sounded as if Zimmerman said “f---ing coon,” a Sanford officer told FBI that local gang members were referred to as “goons,” ABC News reported. The new evidence also presents Martin’s last days: He had gone to a football game with a cousin. His father also gave him money to see a movie, but he didn’t go. Martin decided instead to visit a convenience store the next morning with his cousin. On the night he was murdered, Martin’s father and his fiance had gone out to dinner and came home to find the teen was missing. Zimmerman, meanwhile, remains out of jail on a $1 million bond. He is being electronically monitored with a 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew. 
 
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 The lead Sanford Police investigator who sought manslaughter charges against George Zimmerman told the FBI that a sergeant and two other officers tried to pressure him into making an arrest in the controversial case — even though he didn’t think there was enough evidence. 
 
 Sanford Police Officer Chris Serino first made headlines when evidence released in the case showed he sought manslaughter charges against Zimmerman even while his chief publicly said there was no probable cause to arrest him. But a document released late Thursday casts doubt on Serino’s prior sworn affidavit seeking criminal charges, and raises questions about the credibility of the star law-enforcement witness in the murder case against Zimmerman for the shooting death of a black teenager, Miami Gardens high school junior Trayvon Martin.. 
 
 Telling the FBI that he was concerned that people inside the police department were leaking information, Serino cited Sgt. Arthur Barnes, officers Rebecca Villalona and Trekelle Perkins “as all pressuring him to file charges against Zimmerman after the incident,” an FBI report said. “Serino did not believe he had enough evidence at the time to file charges.” 
 
 The summary of Serino’s statement does not mention the race of the officers who allegedly pressured him, but sources told The Miami Herald that Barnes and Perkins are black, and Villalona is married to an African-American man. All three, the source said, had been called in by their supervisor and questioned about leaking information in the case. 
 
 A request Thursday evening to the Sanford Police Department for comment about Serino’s statement went unanswered. 
 
 “Our position has always been that there’s something going on in the Sanford Police Department,” said Benjamin Crump, an attorney for Trayvon’s family. “All of this is window dressing. What’s important is George Zimmerman’s statements, which are inconsistent and factually impossible.” 
 
 Serino, a 15-year veteran of the department who was a major-crimes investigator, was demoted last month to overnight patrol. Tapes of his interviews with Zimmerman show him poking holes in the former neighborhood watch volunteer’s account of what happened the night he killed Trayvon. Serino told the FBI that Zimmerman had a “little hero complex” and sounded “scripted.” However, he said he believed Zimmerman targeted Trayvon because of his attire, the circumstances and recent burglaries in the area, not the color of the teen’s skin. 
 
 In his FBI interview, Serino accused Sgt. Barnes of being “friendly” with Tracy Martin, Trayvon’s father. He said Tracy Martin at first understood why no charges were filed, but later changed coursse and accused Zimmerman of racial profiling. 
 
 Crump denied that Tracy Martin ever changed postures. Martin, he said, sought legal counsel the very day Serino told him no charges would be filed. 
 
 Records released Thursday show that Sgt. Barnes, a 25-year veteran of the department, told the FBI that he believed the black community would be “in an uproar” if Zimmerman was not charged. “The community will be satisfied if an arrest takes place,” the FBI quoted him saying. Barnes “felt the shooting was not racially motivated, but it was a man shooting an unarmed kid.” 

 MIAMI — A wide-ranging investigation of George Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Trayvon Martin , found a man not prone to violence or prejudice and who moved easily between racial and ethnic groups — a “decent guy,” “a good human being.” The assessments, made public on Thursday, came from interviews with friends, co-workers and neighbors who were interviewed by the F.B.I. and state and local law-enforcement authorities. They are part of a pretrial cache of documents in the case that have been released periodically by Angela B. Corey, the special prosecutor. The F.B.I. was brought in to conduct a federal civil rights investigation, which is focused on whether there was racial bias involved in the shooting and in the handling of the case. 
 
 Documents released previously focused on the Feb. 26 shooting, the subsequent police investigation and Mr. Zimmerman’s statements to the police. The latest trove of reports and tape recordings contained little fresh information about the shape of the case, but provided instead a fuller portrait of the defendant. 
 
 His bosses and co-workers repeatedly described Mr. Zimmerman, 28, who speaks English and Spanish, as helpful and reasonable. 
 
 After someone broke the lock on his chair — it was an orthopedic chair that he kept at work — and disturbed his desk, Mr. Zimmerman handled the situation calmly, reporting the incident to his superiors to resolve the problem and get reimbursement for the lock, interviews showed. 
 
 But Mr. Zimmerman did show flashes of temper. During an argument with his ex-fiancée, a stylist he met at Supercuts in 2001, he slapped her in the mouth because she was chewing gum. As the two were breaking up, they pushed each other forcefully, and he kicked her dog in the stomach, she said. The dog bit him. The woman complained that Mr. Zimmerman was overly possessive and wanted her to wear conservative clothes. Mr. Zimmerman attended counseling sessions before the relationship failed. 
 
 The woman said that after the two would argue, Mr. Zimmerman would sometimes talk about killing himself by driving into a lake or taking pills. She viewed it as a ploy for sympathy. 
 
 But she also remarked that while Mr. Zimmerman was aggressive with her, she never saw him behave that way with others. He never “exhibited any biases or prejudices against anyone and did not use racial epithets of any kind,” she told the F. B.I. An exception is a MySpace page Mr. Zimmerman once kept where he went on a rant about the Mexicans in his old Virginia neighborhood, saying they would mess with cars and pull knives. 
 
 Asked about the Martin case, the ex-fiancée said she was taken aback to find out Mr. Zimmerman was the shooter. 
 
 Mr. Zimmerman was the last person she would expect “to be involved in anything like that,” the woman told investigators. “Zimmerman was not the type of person to place himself in a physical confrontation. Zimmerman wanted to be a successful person,” she added. Like almost all of those interviewed, the woman’s name was not made public. 
 
 The documents also reveal that Mr. Zimmerman had a difficult relationship with his mother. Once, after his ex-fiancée argued with his mother, Mr. Zimmerman turned off his mother’s electricity and left the house. 
 
 One friend, Mr. Zimmerman’s regular shooting partner, said that Mr. Zimmerman told him that his mother, Gladys, who is Peruvian, “was very strict and dominant,” the friend told investigators. “His mother was known to hit him all the time when Zimmerman was growing up,” the friend added 
 
 His father, a retired magistrate judge, “did not stick up for the kids,” the friend said. Until he was arrested, George Zimmerman had been estranged from most of his family. 
 
 The documents also included witness statements, the accounts of Sanford police officers involved in the case and police reports documenting a string of burglaries and larcenies in the neighborhood. 
 
 These show that Mr. Zimmerman was extremely concerned about the burglaries; he called the police several times to report suspicious people walking around Retreat at Twin Lakes, his gated community. Last year he formed a neighborhood watch program, which pleased residents. A manager there said no complaints were lodged against Mr. Zimmerman, who patrolled several times a week in his car, sometimes with the headlights off. 
 
 Chris Serino of the Sanford Police Department, the lead investigator in the case, told the F.B.I. that he did not think Mr. Zimmerman had shot Mr. Martin, who was a guest at the complex, because he was black. 
 
 Instead, he said, Mr. Zimmerman’s actions were based on Mr. Martin’s “attire, the total circumstances of the encounter and the previous burglary suspects in the community.” He said that Mr. Zimmerman’s version of events felt “scripted” to him. Still, Mr. Serino said that despite pressure from colleagues to bring charges, he felt the evidence was lacking at the time. 
 
 But Mr. Serino stressed that the shooting was “ultimately avoidable.” Mr. Zimmerman should have stayed in his car or identified himself to Mr. Martin. But Mr. Zimmerman, who at one point wanted to be a police officer, “had already reached a faulty conclusion as to Martin’s purpose for being in the neighborhood.” 
 
 Mr. Zimmerman was “overzealous” and had “a little hero complex,” Mr. Serino said. 
 
 After the shooting and the national furor it caused, Mr. Zimmerman grew fearful and expressed interest in purchasing a second gun, the documents show. He had a concealed weapons license and the police recovered three ammunition magazines in his car the night of the shooting. 
 
 It is clear from the documents that Mr. Zimmerman had high standards for his neighborhood. He once complained to a complex manager about the landscaping behind his home. He also called the police nonemergency line to report suspicious people several times. Once he called to say that too many children were playing in the streets of his neighborhood at dusk and risked being injured. 
 
 After forming the neighborhood watch program, he wrote a laudatory letter to the former Sanford Police chief, Bill Lee, praising the coordinator for the program and acknowledging that he did not initially have the best impression of the force. 
 
 “I have high hopes for, and restored faith in your administration and the Sanford Police Department in its entirety,” he wrote.
– Florida prosecutors released 284 pages of evidence yesterday related to the shooting of Trayvon Martin, including images of Trayvon's blood-soaked sweatshirt and other clothing, reports the New York Daily News. Investigator Christopher Serino's name came up again in the FBI report (which was based on interviews with him, Zimmerman's ex-fiancee, witnesses, and colleagues, among others). Serino told the FBI that George Zimmerman might have had a "little hero complex," but that he didn't think racism drove him to shoot Trayvon, suggesting his confronting of Trayvon was more about the young man's hoodie than the color of his skin. Serino told the FBI he felt pressured to file charges against Zimmerman by a sergeant and two other officers, even though he didn't believe there was sufficient evidence, the Miami Herald adds. FBI interviews conducted with Zimmerman's friends and acquaintances also revealed no evidence of racism; they portrayed him as a "decent guy" who moved easily between different races, reports the New York Times. Released documents also show that Zimmerman was estranged from his parents and had an especially difficult relationship with his mother, who, according to one friend, "was known to hit him all the time."