The investigation into the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin inside a gated Sanford community could wrap up today, police said.
Trayvon was shot last month by volunteer crime watch captain George Zimmerman who reported a 'suspicious person' in the neighborhood just minutes before the deadly shooting.
Investigators plan to turn the case over to the Seminole-Brevard State Attorney's Office, the agency responsible for making a charging decision.
Sanford's mayor, chief of police and city manager plan to hold a news conference this afternoon at 4 p.m. Police have been under intense public scrutiny for failing to make an arrest.
Zimmerman was taken into custody after the shooting, but released after he claimed the shooting was in self defense.
The teen's family says they believe Trayvon was shot because he was black. The shooter is a white man.
Trayvon, a Miami high school junior, was walking back to his father's fiance's apartment from the store with a package of Skittles in his pocket. Zimmerman, the captain of his crime watch group, was driving through his Sanford neighborhood, on the lookout for trouble.
He saw the teen and called police. Two minutes later Trayvon was on the ground, dying from a single gunshot wound. Police found Zimmerman standing nearby, a gun in his waistband and blood seeping from injuries to his nose and the back of his head.
That was Sunday, Feb. 26. Sanford police cuffed 28-year-old Zimmerman, took him to police headquarters, interrogated him then let him go.
He told them he had acted in self-defense.
Last week Trayvon's father, Tracy Martin, held a news conference in Orlando and called on Sanford police to arrest Zimmerman for murder.
"It's senseless," Tracy Martin said of his son's death. "We feel justice hasn't been served."
The teen was buried this weekend in Miami.
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