There is NOTHNG I am about to write that hasn't been written or tossed about for serious debate - I am just putting it all together as, what seems to be, the most popular scenario in a nutshell. ***this is NOT what happened, there are NO known facts in this theory****
Soooo, GZ chases down Trayvon when he hangs up with the dispatcher - he has been right behind him all along, in spite of telling the dispatcher he'd lost Trayvon. He pulls his gun on Trayvon and Trayvon screams loudly several times (people don't normally scream when a gun is pulled on them, just FYI), CZ shoots Trayvon in cold blood.
The kickback from the gun knocks CZ to the ground, first on his face and then on the back of his head. He immediately calls the police, again. When LE arrives, someone CZ knows, he points at Trayvon and says, "I killed him". The cop asks "why", to which CZ answers, "self defense bro", to which the cop says, "kewl", hop in the car and we'll take care of those injuries on your head.
The cop then directs other LE on the scene to forgo taking any evidence and to take Trayvon to the morgue (where he sat without an autopsy ever being done). Cop tells another cop, don't bother to call family members, no biggie and no reason, just go home. When CSI shows up the cop tells them, we don't need you here guys, I know the shooter, friend of mine, we're gonna use SYG law, less paperwork. They give each other a knowing look and leave.
CZ gets to the station, has a cup of coffee, chats it up a bit, and goes home. When a pesky witness shows up to say she saw something suspicious, the cop tells her to go home and think about it some more.
Ridiculous???? YES, even leaving out all the racial inferences -it's still absurd to think even a drunk barney phife didn't do an investigation. Did they make the documents public - obviously not, but I'd be willing to bet my next paycheck, CSI did their thing and a lot of questions were asked.
I've read every document posted on the City of Sanford website and listened to all the recordings posted there.
I've also read the witness interviews with newspapers, some saying that LE tried to alter the content of their statement, others saying that they tried to contact the investigating officers but got no calls back so they could give statements.
From the statements the officers made in the preliminary report posted on the web site, there was no effort to preserve any evidence on Trayvon's body. There was no mention of documenting GZ's injuries or of collecting evidence on his clothing. There is no mention of photographing the crime scene, no mention that a CSI team arrived on site.
Maybe it's a lack of detail in the available reports, but there have been no mentions from any of the witnesses that any extensive investigation occurred in any of the newspaper accounts I have seen.
SPD has a history of not investigating crimes with black victims, so unless someone reports the process or reports are made public, I won't believe they did it in this case.
If you've seen more official reports than have been posted on the Sanford site, please post links - I would love to read them.