Admitted Trayvon Martin killer George Zimmerman now claims he is homeless and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.
According to the L.A. Times, the 30-year-old Floridian, controversially acquitted in the 2012 shooting death of the unarmed teen just steps away from his father's gated community home, still sees himself as the victim.
"In my mind and between God and me, I know that if I didn't act, act the way I did, I wouldn't be here," he told the newspaper."I mean, he wasn't playing around," Zimmerman says at another point.
A self-appointed neighborhood watch captain, on the night in question Zimmerman completely ignored a police dispatcher's stern advice to cease with following the teen he later admitted he thought looked suspicious because he was wearing a hoodie, and instead approached and confronted the teen.
The Times adds Zimmerman now concedes he suspected that Martin might have been the burglar responsible for a string of break-ins. After shooting Martin, he later claimed self defense.
According to The Times, Zimmerman still feels no regrets about the shooting, but whether blames "sensationalized media coverage" for victimizing him, further claiming that he now owes millions in unpaid legal fees despite hundreds of thousands from raised from online donations.
In a recent CNN interview, Zimmerman also ranted about how he has become a "scapegoat of the President" and has "been screwed by the by the U.S. government."
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