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Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey announced the charges at 6 p.m. ET.
The alleged murder of Martin by Zimmerman has been trending online since the 17-year-old’s parents set up a Change.org petition to prosecute Zimmerman in their son’s death. The petition had 2,257,985 signees at time of this writing.
This is how the news broke, as seen on Twitter:
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