George Zimmerman Won’t be Prosecuted for Domestic Violence After Spat with Wife

In this Monday, Sept. 9, 2013 file photo, George Zimmerman, right, is escorted to a home by a Lake Mary police officer, in Lake Mary, Fla., after a domestic incident in the neighborhood where Zimmerman and his wife Shellie had lived during his murder trial. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

George Zimmerman was dead set on smashing his wife’s iPad in a confrontation at his wife’s parents’ house in Florida. Shellie Zimmerman, his wife, also told the 911 operator she called at the time that George was threatening her and her father, David Dean, with a gun.

But when Lake Mary police arrived, they could find no gun on George, and he told them that Shellie hit him with her iPad.

Now the police department has announced that there won’t be any domestic violence charges over the Sept. 9 altercation. The department had been trying to salvage video from the iPad, which was recording during the part of the situation leading up to it breaking, but failed to do so, reported the Orlando Sentinel.

George was handcuffed during the situation, and multiple media outlets reported that he was arrested.

But everyone was later free to leave the scene. Shellie said in a later interview that she and her dad declined to press charges because she feared she would be the only one to go to jail, since she is on probation. The couple is in the middle of divorce proceedings.

The altercation came after the couple was arguing about how to divide pots and pans, said Mark O'Mara, one of George Zimmerman’s attorneys.