Elderly couple forced out of home after tweet claims killer of Trayvon Martin lives there
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SANFORD, Fla – An
elderly Florida couple have been forced to move into a hotel after their home
address was wrongly tweeted as belonging to the man who shot teen Trayvon
Martin.
The tweets were traced back to a man in California
and the address was also reportedly retweeted by director Spike
Lee to his almost 250,000 followers.
The couple, aged 70 and 72, have been harassed with
hate mail, been hassled by media and had scared neighbors questioning them since
the tweet, their son Chip Humble told the Orlando Sentinel.
Fearful for their safety, and hoping to escape the
spotlight, the couple have temporarily moved to a hotel.
The confusion seems to stem from the fact the woman's
son is named William George Zimmerman and he lived briefly at the address in
1995.
When William Zimmerman pleaded with the man who
tweeted the address, the man responded, "Black power all day. No justice, no
peace" along with an obscenity.
Neighborhood Watch volunteer George Zimmerman shot
and killed Martin in a Sanford gated community on Feb. 26, with emotions and
anger running at fever pitch while he remains free.
William Zimmerman said he used his mother and
stepfather's address to register a car, get a drivers license and vote when he
lived there after college.
"This is really scary, and I'm concerned for my
family," William Zimmerman said. "It's scary because there are people who aren't
mentally right and will take this information and run with it.
"To endanger people who are innocent because people
are angry is not the answer. That's not how we're going to heal. It's not
[going] to help the Martin family for someone else to be hurt."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/28/elderly-couple-forced-out-home-after-tweet-claims-killer-trayvon-miller-lives/#ixzz1qQaA1SDq
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