Seventeen-year-old African-American student <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trayvon_Martin" id="mwAQA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Trayvon Martin">Trayvon Martin</a> is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Trayvon_Martin" id="mwAQE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Killing of Trayvon Martin">shot to death</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhood_watch" id="mwAQI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Neighborhood watch">neighborhood watch</a> coordinator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Zimmerman" id="mwAQM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="George Zimmerman">George Zimmerman</a> in an altercation in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford,_Florida" id="mwAQQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sanford, Florida">Sanford</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida" id="mwAQU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Florida">Florida</a>.<sup about="#mwt138" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{"name":"designated watch"},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-designated_watch-25"}}' id="cite_ref-designated_watch_25-0" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_26#cite_note-designated_watch-25" id="mwAQY" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 25;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQc">[25]</span></a></sup>