On Monday, 38-year-old Matthew Apperson, the man who shot at George Zimmerman during a road-rage incident in May of 2015, received a 20-year prison term from a district court in Seminole County, Florida.
Apperson was convicted of second-degree murder, shooting into a vehicle, and armed aggravated assault last month.
In court, his defense team argued that he acted in self-defense against Zimmerman. The jury didn’t buy it.
“Zimmerman disputed Apperson’s claim, testifying that Apperson pulled up next to his pickup and shot him — the bullet missing and striking the passenger side window. Zimmerman suffered minor injuries from the broken glass,” reports USA Today. Zimmerman managed to walk away from the incident with only minor injuries.
During the trial, the prosecution cited a 911 call made to Lake Mary Police in 2015. In the recording, you can hear the voice of an unidentified male speaker telling the dispatcher the following:
A guy just said he had to pull a gun on a guy … he had to shoot at somebody…He’s driving an Infinity. He said it was George Zimmerman.
The road-rage incident in May of 2015 wasn’t the first time Zimmerman and Apperson had engaged in an altercation.
“Back in September 2014, the two men reportedly shouted at each other, with Apperson claiming Zimmerman threatened to kill him during a confrontation in their vehicles. Apperson — who called the authorities — decided not to press charges,” notes USA Today.
Zimmerman first gained notoriety following the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in 2012. The shooting sparked the first embers of the controversial Black Lives Matter movement.
Although Zimmerman was acquitted of any wrongdoing in a court of law, he was forced to go into hiding after receiving a flood of death threats.
To this day, the half-white, half-Hispanic former neighborhood watchman is widely reviled by the activist-Left and BLM supporters eager to enact revenge.
Top image (Getty Images): Matthew Apperson is fingerprinted after his sentencing at the Seminole County Criminal Justice Center on Monday morning, Oct. 17, 2016 in Sanford, Fla.