The woman who purchased the gun that was used to shoot and kill 17-year-old Trayvon Martin will give it to her son as a gift, according to reports this week.
George Zimmerman, the ex-neighborhood watch volunteer who shot Martin in Florida in 2012, sold the gun for $250,000.
Zimmerman, 32, said he initially planned to sell it for $150,000 to a Florida bar owner. However, he ended up selling it to the unnamed woman instead.
The bar owner, Denny Honeycutt, said he worked out a deal with Zimmerman for the purchase of the firearm. The agreement fell through, he told the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
“I thought he was a man of his word,” Honeycutt said, apparently not pleased with Zimmerman.
“I still got the check waiting on him,” Honeycutt added. “If he comes back, he comes back. If he doesn’t, he’s an (expletive).”
Zimmerman said he decided to sell off the gun after hearing Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s “anti-gun rhetoric.”
“She has been stumping around for a false campaign for the Trayvon Martin Foundation,” he said to KTNV in a Skype interview. “She lied saying that I killed him when he was walking home in his daddy’s neighborhood. Which if anyone watched more than seven minutes of the trial they would know that is false.”
