Just moments before Friday’s bail hearing, a new photograph released by ABC News showed a bloodied George Zimmerman with injuries to the back of his head. The photo was reportedly taken three minutes after Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin and could support his claim that the two were engaged in a physical altercation.
A Florida judge granted Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder, $150,000 bail Friday morning.
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ABC News reports:
“The exclusive image shows blood trickling down the back of Zimmerman’s head from two cuts. It also shows a possible contusion forming on the crown of his head. The original police report that night notes that the back of Zimmerman’s head was wet, and that he was bleeding from the nose and head.
Zimmerman told police that night that he shot and killed the teenager in self-defense after Martin punched him and pounced on him. Zimmerman told police that Martin then bashed his head into the concrete sidewalk during the altercation that took place in the tidy middle-class development of the Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford, Fla.”
Zimmerman was treated at the scene by paramedics, cuffed and taken to the Sanford police station for questioning. He was never admitted to a hospital or given stitches.
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Benjamin Crump, the Martin family attorney, told ABC News that he is skeptical of the image.
“How bad could it have been if they didn’t take him to the hospital [and] didn’t stitch him up,” he said. “The special prosecutor has seen all the evidence and still believes George Zimmerman murdered Trayvon Martin.”