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Zimmerman, a 28-year-old mixed race Hispanic man,[Note 1] was the neighborhood watch coordinator for his gated community where Martin was visiting his relatives at the time of the shooting.[3][4][5] Zimmerman shot Martin, who was unarmed, during an altercation between the two.
The crime was shocking in its callousness and brutality - and yet many people feel the defendant in the case got a raw deal. Planning to run away with friends, Paul Henry Gingerich casually shot his friend's stepfather to death, at the age of 12. Now 15 years old, Gingerich won't see the outside of a jail cell until he's 37 years old. Many believe that's far too harsh a sentence.