(BREAKING NEWS) Jurors: Zimmerman not guilty of 2nd-degree murder

A Florida jury found George Zimmerman not guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

George Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder in the 2012 shooting death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin.

SANFORD, Fla. — George Zimmerman blinked and barely smiled as a jury found him not guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin.

Supporters of the 17-year-old Martin’s family who had gathered outside the courthouse yelled out “No! No!”

The jury had been given the chance to convict Zimmerman of manslaughter but did not do so, despite asking for a clarification of the charge earlier in the evening.

Zimmerman’s wife, Shellie Zimmerman, had tears in her eyes after the six-member, all-woman jury delivered its verdict Saturday night.

After hearing the verdict, Judge Debra Nelson told Zimmerman he was free to go.

Jurors heard two different portraits of Zimmerman and had to decide whether he was a want-to-be police officer who took the law into his own hands or a well-meaning neighborhood watch volunteer who shot the unarmed teenager in self-defense because he feared for his life.

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