Man Who fired Gunshot at George Zimmerman Sentenced to 20 Years In Prison for Attempted Murder

The Florida man who fired a gunshot at perpetual menace George Zimmerman was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday for attempted murder.

Matthew Apperson, 37, had testified that he shot in self-defense during a road rage incident with Zimmerman last year. He said Zimmerman’s intimidating reputation — especially for his fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin — made him fear for his life.

But a Seminole County jury convicted Apperson last month of attempted second-degree murder, as well as shooting into an occupied vehicle and aggravated assault.

Zimmerman and Apperson both accused each other of beginning a confrontation and car chase in May 2015. 

A reminder that George Zimmerman is cancer to society

Zimmerman testified that Apperson was shooting to kill without provocation. He said Apperson appeared to be glad when he believed his shot hit and killed Zimmerman, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

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Matthew Apperson sits in a Seminole County courtroom Tuesday, Sept. 13th. 

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Twenty years is Florida’s mandatory minimum sentence for shooting at another person with a gun.

But Zimmerman infamously walked free after shooting and killing Martin, an unarmed black teenager, after a scuffle in 2012. Zimmerman, who was a volunteer neighborhood watchman at the time, claimed self-defense and was acquitted.

He has since incessantly bragged about killing the teen and even auctioned the gun he used in the fatal confrontation, supposedly for $250,000. 

Source: NY DAILY

Zimmerman Punched At Bar For Bragging About Killing Trayvon Martin

George Zimmerman has been punched in the face at a Florida bar after bragging about killing Trayvon Martin, officials and witnesses said.

The former neighborhood watchman said he was clocked by a drunken diner who mistook him for someone else at the Gators Riverside Grille in Sanford around 5:00 p.m, Sunday, according to a police report.

“This man just punched me in the face,” Zimmerman told a 911 dispatcher. “He said he was going to
kill me. You need to send three or four cops.”

But staff at the restaurant and witnesses countered the acquitted murderer’s account and said the incident was nothing more than a shoving match that stemmed from Zimmerman bragging about his notorious past.


“They shoved each other and that was the end,” Gators Riverside Grille owner Edward Winters told The News.

“He said, ‘You don’t know who I am, do you?’ And Zimmerman said, ‘I’m George Zimmerman,’” Winters added.

Witnesses told investigators Zimmerman announced himself in the restaurant as the man cleared on self-defense grounds in the 2012 shooting of Martin.

“You’re bragging about that?” a man said as he approached the group.

“You better get the f– out of here you n–r lover, you ain’t welcome here,” the man told Zimmerman before punching him and breaking his glasses.

Zimmerman, recently auctioned off the 9-mm. handgun he used to kill the teen for $250,000. He was acquitted of shooting the unarmed 17-year-old in a 2013 trial