Zimmerman involved in Florida shooting incident: reports
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of murder charges in the 2012 shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Florida, suffered a minor wound in a road-rage shooting incident on Monday, media reports said.
Police in Lake Mary, Florida, a suburb of Orlando, said they were investigating the shooting, according to police spokeswoman Bianca Gillett.
WFTV said Zimmerman was shot in the face and WESH-TV in Orlando said the wound was minor.
Police said it appeared to be a "road-rage incident," according to the FOX 35 television station in Orlando.
A bullet hole could be seen in the passenger window of Zimmerman's vehicle, WESH reported.
Witnesses told the television station that a man appearing to be Zimmerman was able to walk normally into an ambulance.
Zimmerman, 31, a former Florida neighborhood watch volunteer, was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012, an incident that prompted civil rights rallies and drew international attention to Florida's controversial "stand your ground" law.
Earlier this year, federal prosecutors decided not to press civil rights charges against him.
Zimmerman has had several brushes with the law since his 2013 acquittal on second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the Martin shooting, which he said was in self-defense.
Zimmerman was arrested in January in connection with a domestic dispute, accused of throwing a wine bottle at his girlfriend. Prosecutors later dropped the charges after she recanted.
He also was arrested in November 2013 after allegedly pointing a gun at a different girlfriend during an argument. Those charges were later dropped after the woman withdrew her complaint.
Zimmerman also has drawn the attention of authorities over accusations that he had threatened his then-estranged wife.
In another incident, he was accused of threatening to kill a man in a road-rage incident and he has been stopped for speeding in Texas and Florida.
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