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U.S. NEWS A5
Saturday 16 May 2015
Man who shot at George Zimmerman charged
LAKE MARY, Fla. (AP) — A volunteer had recently Apperson’s attorney, Mark Matthew Apperson, who authorities say was involved in a shoot-
man who shot at George moved to another state NeJame, said earlier this ing incident involving George Zimmerman, enters the Lake Mary
Zimmerman during a con- but came back to the Or- week that the shooting was Police Department with his attorney Monday, May 11, 2015, in
frontation earlier this week lando suburb of Lake Mary “a good, old-fashioned Lake Mary, Fla.
along a busy central Flori- for Mother’s Day. He was self-defense case.” He said
da road has been arrested. driving to a doctor’s ap- their encounter on Monday Associated Press
Matthew Apperson was pointment Monday when was pure “happenstance.”
charged on Friday with Apperson intentionally fired Zimmerman and Apperson
aggravated assault with his gun into Zimmerman’s were involved in a road-
a deadly weapon, aggra- truck without provocation, rage episode last Septem-
vated battery with a dead- detectives said. ber.
ly weapon and firing a mis- Police recovered two guns Two days later, Apperson
sile into an occupied con- from Apperson and one called police to report that
veyance, Lake Mary police from Zimmerman. Zimmerman’s truck was
reported in a news release. Both men had their guns parked near the disability-
Apperson turned himself in legally. The passenger win- benefits office where he
at the police department dow of Zimmerman’s pick- works. Zimmerman told po-
Friday evening. up had a bullet hole in it, lice officers he had an ap-
Zimmerman’s attorney, and Zimmerman suffered pointment in the same of-
Don West, has said the for- minor injuries from flying fice park, and no charges
mer neighborhood watch glass and debris. were filed.q
