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The final, violent moments in the life of their son, Trayvon Martin, no longer dominate the national news, as they once did. Tens of thousands no longer attend rallies demanding justice for the slain teenager; pundits no longer debate the case on every media platform imaginable. What once had been the big story has increasingly become yesterday’s news.
But Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin haven’t stopped fighting.
One year ago Tuesday, they were grieving and relatively anonymous parents, trying to come to grips with the sudden death of their 17-year-old son. But in time, they became celebrities of sorts in a world of gun violence and vigilante justice.
To their supporters, they were the faces and the voices of victims of racial profiling.
While the spotlight largely has faded since then, they say their commitment has not.
“We (want to) make sure that no other parents have to go through what we have gone through in the last year,” Fulton told CNN’s Piers Morgan on Monday night.
On February 26, 2012, her teenage son was walking back to the Sanford, Florida, home of his father’s fiancee after picking up some Skittles and an iced tea at 7-Eleven. That’s when, and where, then-28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman spotted him.
What happened between then and when Zimmerman fatally shot the teen is subject to dispute, one that could be settled by a jury starting June 10, when Zimmerman is set to go on trial on a second-degree murder charge.
As the prosecution and defense lawyers battled in court in the weeks and months that followed, Trayvon Martin’s parents became less visible on the national scene.
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