George Zimmerman was involved in another shooting incident today (although this time he's the one who got shot at).
There's a front page diary already up about this, but a key fact about the incident isn't included in that diary so I thought another diary highlighting that fact might be worth doing.
Because this is not the first incident involving George Zimmerman and Matthew Apperson. Their history apparently starts back on September 9, 2014, when Zimmerman angrily yelled at Apperson: 'Do You Know Who I Am? I'll F***ing Kill You'...
More details about Zimmerman's two (yes, two) previous encounters with Matthew Apperson below the orange sludge.
Here's a summary of the first encounter between the two, from a September 2014 Huffington Post article:
New details have emerged in an alleged road rage incident involving Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman.
On Tuesday [September 9], Zimmerman allegedly threatened a motorist's life during a road rage incident. Matthew Apperson, 35, said he was listening to music in his car when he was verbally assailed by two men in a truck at a stop light in Lake Mary, Florida.
Police spokeswoman Bianca Gillett told CWKMG that the man recognized the truck driver as Zimmerman. The man said Zimmerman, who was carrying a gun, asked, "Do you know who I am?" before saying, "I'll f***ing kill you."
Apperson placed a 911 call reporting the incident from gas station. The call can be heard in the video [which I can't figure out how to embed here, but is embedded in the HuffPost article]. Zimmerman was gone by the time police responded.
The story of Zimmerman's first encounter with Apperson was also covered by
the NY Daily News:
George Zimmerman, who once shot dead an unarmed teen, threatened to kill another driver during a road rage incident in central Florida this week, police say.
“Do you know who I am?” the 30-year-old asked the man, identified by police as Matthew Apperson, during the incident Tuesday in Lake Mary, Fla., the driver told cops.
Zimmerman’s passenger asked Apperson why he was shaking his finger at their truck, Apperson told police.
But Apperson said he’d been listening to music with his windows rolled up in his Honda Accord and unaware of the gold Honda Ridgeline following him.
“I looked over - George Zimmerman was the driver - and they were threatening to kick my ass and to shoot me,” Apperson told a dispatcher. “I said, what are you going to do, shoot me? I’m not messing with you.”
The 35-year-old man pulled into a nearby gas station to call police and report the incident, during which he said the driver of the truck had been Zimmerman “for a fact.”
The truck followed Apperson “in an aggressive manner” into the lot and Zimmerman threatened to shoot Apperson “dead,” he told police. Zimmerman “peeled off” after Apperson went inside the store to call police.
But here's where it gets especially interesting. Because 2 days later (September 11, 2014) there was another incident involving Zimmerman and Apperson:
Apperson called 911 again two days later to report that Zimmerman was waiting outside his workplace. Police responded and interviewed Zimmerman, who told officers he was visiting a doctor’s office in the Waymont Court plaza.
Quite a coincidence! But George Zimmerman's life seems to be filled with coincidences...