WASHINGTON (AP) — An attorney for the parents of Trayvon Martin says they are too distraught to talk to reporters after the Justice Department said the man who fatally shot their son won't face federal charges.
Attorney Ben Crump said Tuesday that the agency's decision was "a bitter pill to swallow" for Martin's parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin.
Crump says Justice Department officials told Martin's parents that they didn't have enough evidence to bring civil rights charges, especially since it was impossible to know Martin's version of events.
Zimmerman has said he acted in self-defense when he shot the 17-year-old Martin during a confrontation three years ago inside a gated community in Sanford, Florida, just outside Orlando. Martin, who was black, was unarmed when he was killed.
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