Tracy Martin, the father of Trayvon Martin, called a non-emergency 911 line at the Sanford police department on Feb. 27 to report his son missing the morning after the teen was shot to death by an overeager neighborhood watchman.
“It hasn’t really been 24 hours, but I’m from Miami and my son’s up here with me,” Tracy Martin tells a dispatcher in the 8:39 a.m. call released Wednesday.
[audio:Tracy-Martin-911-call.mp3]“I’m actually staying at my girlfriend’s house,” Mr. Martin told the dispatcher in a calm voice, explaining that Trayvon didn’t know anyone in Sanford.
A second phone call released Wednesday, the dispatcher called Mr. Martin back a few minutes after the first call to ask for more identifying information.
“Does he know anybody in the area that you think he might have went to, like a friend’s house or anything like that?” the dispatcher asks. Tracy Martin says no, “I have a nephew up here but he’s not at my nephew’s house.”
At the time Mr. MArtin placed the call to 911, Trayvon’s body lay unidentified in the morgue at the Sanford Police department for over 12 hours.
Trayvon crossed paths with George Zimmerman on Feb. 26 inside the Retreat at Twin Lakes community where he was staying at the townhouse of his father’s girlfriend.
Zimmerman is currently being held in a Seminole County jail awaiting a bond hearing on June 29. Zimmerman’s $150,000 bond was revoked earlier this month. He faces a 2nd degree murder charge in Trayvon’s death.
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