George Zimmerman’s Wife on 911 Tape: ‘I Am Really, Really Scared’

George Zimmerman was released without charges
today after his wife called 911 to say Zimmerman
punched his father-in-law in the nose and threatened
to shoot him and his wife.
Zimmerman, acquitted in July of the murder of
teenager Trayvon Martin, claimed that he was acting
in a "defensive manner" during the incident,
according to police, who later added that they never
found a gun on Zimmerman.
Nevertheless, Zimmerman was handcuffed and
questioned by police in Lake Mary, Fla., according
to Lake Mary Police Chief Steve Bracknell.
Listen to Shellie Zimmerman's 911 Call or Read
the Transcript of Her Call to Police
He was later released without charges when his wife
and father-in-law refused to press charges or give
police a sworn statement. Police said they are
reviewing surveillance video from the home and
reserve the right to file charges later based on the
video.
Police said George Zimmerman volunteered the
surveillance videos to investigators.
Shellie Zimmerman called 911 shortly after 2 p.m.
today and reported that her husband assaulted her
father, Colin Morgan, and was waving a gun around
and threatening her and her relatives, according to
police in Lake Mary, Fla.
Lake Mary police took the call "extremely seriously"
and sent eight units, including officers in tactical
gear with ballistic shields, to the home, according to
Bracknell.
A Lake Mary police official later said Zimmerman
did not have a gun, officers never found a gun and
that Zimmerman himself said he never had a gun on
him.
"We did not take a gun at all, because there was no
reason to take a gun, because his gun was in his
truck," Bracknell said.
Shellie Zimmerman, police said, told them she never
saw a gun but saw George Zimmerman's hands near
where she believed he would have had a weapon.
In the 911 call, Shellie Zimmerman tells a
dispatcher that her husband was in his car raging,
adding "he continually has his hand on his gun and
he says step closer…" When Shellie Zimmerman
trails off the dispatcher asks "step closer and what?"
to which Shellie responds "a step closer and he'd
shoot us."
Zimmerman, who claimed self-defense after he shot
and killed Martin, told police in a statement that he
was acting in "a defensive manner" during the
incident and did not have his hand on his gun,
according to Lake Mary police spokesman Zach
Hudson.
Shellie Zimmerman and her father said they do not
want to press charges, Bracknell said. Both Shellie's
lawyer, Kelly Sims, as well as George Zimmerman's
lawyer were at the home, ABC News has learned.
The 911 tapes describe a terrified Shellie
Zimmerman. On the call to a police dispatcher she
told police that her husband punched her father in
the nose, smashed her iPad, cut it with a pocketknife
and raged, "one step closer and he'd shoot us."
"I don't know what he's capable of. I am really,
really scared," she told the dispatcher.
When police arrived she could be heard on the
phone saying, "Dad, get behind a car or something. I
don't know if he's going to start shooting at us or
not." George Zimmerman Feels 'Invincible,' His
Wife Tells ABC News The incident came just days
after Shellie Zimmerman told ABC News that she
was not sure she "ever really knew" her husband
through their seven years of marriage and she felt
she was the victim of verbal abuse by him. She also
said she believed the not guilty verdict left her
husband feeling "invincible" and since then he had
been "making some reckless decisions."
"I think I'm realizing that I have been married to a
person for almost seven years, and I don't think that
I ever really knew him at all," she said.
Shellie Zimmerman filed for divorce earlier this
month, just two months after her husband was
acquitted on murder charges related to the 2012
death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.
She said that she had stood by her husband
throughout the ordeal that began on Feb. 26, 2012,
when he shot and killed the unarmed teenager and
came to an end when a Florida jury acquitted him of
murder this summer.
"I stood by my husband through everything and I
kind of feel like he left me with a bunch of broken
glass that I'm supposed to now assemble and make a
life. … It's just heartbreaking," Shellie said.
"I have a selfish husband. And I think George is all
about George," she said.
George Zimmerman's legal team declined to
comment on the divorce proceedings. They did not
immediately respond to requests for comment today
relating to the domestic incident.
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