In newly released FBI documents, we have uncovered an exchange between George Zimmerman and a Sanford police detective that goes to the heart of Zimmerman’s long-standing defense.
Zimmerman claims he shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense.
In one of the FBI documents, there’s a transcript of an interview Sanford police conducted with Zimmerman on May 15.
In the transcript, just as Sanford police detective Doris Singleton turns off an audio recording, Zimmerman, who is Catholic, asks the detective if she was Catholic.
Detective Singleton responds she is Christian, and when she asked Zimmerman why the question was relevant, Zimmerman told her it is wrong in the Catholic faith to kill another person.
Singleton then told Zimmerman if it was self-defense like he claims, then God would know.
We have also uncovered details about an FBI interview with one of Zimmerman’s former coworkers.
That person worked with Zimmerman at Digital Risk, a mortgage company in Maitland.
However, the coworker used to work as a Mt. Dora police officer. At one point he was involved in an officer-involved shooting, where he said he and his police dog were shot by a black man, and he shot that man back in self-defense.
The former officer was later cleared of any wrongdoing.
He said Zimmerman was very interested in this incident and his background in law enforcement.
Zimmerman’s defense has requested the deposition of a Sanford police investigator who was there when Martin’s father admitted it was not his son yelling for help on the 911 call from that night.
Zimmerman’s attorney expects they could get that matter addressed at the case’s next hearing, which is Wednesday, Dec. 12.