So apparently he was on his cell phone with a female while he was being followed.
Reports: Trayvon Martin was on cellphone when he was shot
Trayvon Martin, the teenage boy shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer in a Florida gated community, was speaking on a cellphone with a 16-year-old girl at the time of the encounter and expressed concern about a "strange man" following him, ABC News reports.
CNN says the girl apparently has not been questioned by Sanford, Fla., police.
CNN quotes a family attorney as saying the girl was "nervous and concerned" about what was happening and suggested that Martin try to run from the stranger.
The neighbor watch volunteer, George Zimmerman, had called 911 to report what he said was a "suspicious" person in the area.
He was advised by the 911 operator not to follow the teenager. Minutes later, Martin was shot by Zimmerman, who has claimed self-defense.
ABC News, which broke the story, was there when the unidentified girl told the Martin's family attorney Benjamin Crump about the final moments of the boy's life.
"He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on. He said he lost the man," the girl said. "I asked Trayvon to run, and he said he was going to walk fast. I told him to run but he said he was not going to run."
Eventually he ran, she said, thinking that he'd managed to escape. But suddenly the man was back, cornering Martin, she said.
"Trayvon said, 'What, are you following me for,' and the man said, 'What are you doing here.' Next thing I hear is somebody pushing, and somebody pushed Trayvon because the head set just fell. I called him again and he didn't answer the phone."
Then the line went dead, she said.
ABC News reporters Matt Gutman and Seni Tienabesot say ABC has also examined Trayvon's phone logs, which show the conversation with the girl occurred five minutes before police first arrived on scene.
Police have described 28-year-old Zimmerman as white; his family says he is Hispanic and not racist, the Associated Press reports.
Zimmerman spotted Martin as he was patrolling his neighborhood last month and called the police emergency dispatcher to report a suspicious person. Against the advice of the dispatcher, Zimmerman then followed Martin, who was walking home from a convenience store with a bag of candy in his pocket.
The Justice Department said in a statement late Monday that the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office will join in the agency's investigation.
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