In the US voluntary assistant police George Zimmerman, shot and killed in 2012, a black teenager, auctioned the gun, which was made from the fatal shot. About it reports Reuters.
The gun of caliber of 9 millimeters manufacturing company Kel-Tec CNC Industries Zimmerman described as “a piece of American history.” The starting price is five thousand dollars. The auction site Gunbroker.com will begin on Thursday, may 12, at 18:00 Moscow time and will last the day.
In July 2013 Zimmerman was acquitted by a jury on charges of second-degree murder. Recently, the U.S. justice Department decided to return his personal weapon.
The incident occurred in February 2012 in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman, being on patrol as a volunteer police shot the man staged a fight with him unarmed black teenager, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The incident and the government’s decision not to immediately press charges against Zimmerman provoked mass protests among the African-American population.
