Zimmerman Parents Launch Website, Seek Donations

The parents of George Zimmerman are following in their son's footsteps with a new website that tells their side of the Trayvon Martin shooting and asks for donations. The website, robertandgladys.com, was recently launched by Robert and Gladys Zimmerman, NBC News confirmed. According to a message posted on the site's homepage by Robert Zimmerman, they started it to give a description of their son, give updates on the family and ask for donations for their relocation in the wake of the Feb. 26 shooting. "The peaceful, secure life we once knew is now just a memory," he wrote. The site asks for donations for his and his wife's "greatly increased living expenses, and our eventual relocation." That relocation, he said, was necessitated by threats the family has received in the wake of their son's shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in February and the national firestorm it ignited. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder and pleaded not guilty, claiming self-defense.

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