Friends say George Zimmerman has betrayed and abandoned those closest to him and is a 'powder keg ready to blow'
Retired physician?s assistant and Vietnam veteran Mr Donnelly and his wife Leanne Benjamin, who owns a real estate company in Lake Mary, stepped up for Zimmerman in his hour of need.
They each provided powerful testimony at his trial asserting that it was Zimmerman, not teenager Trayvon Martin, who could be heard screaming for help in one particular 911 call on the night of February 26 last year.
Having met by virtue of Leanne?s company sharing a building with the insurance firm for which Zimmerman once worked, the couple became so close to the younger man that they regarded him like a son.
Mr Donnelly took Zimmerman to buy the suits, shirts and ties he wore at court. He taught him to tie a Windsor knot.
Zimmerman in turn wrote a Father?s Day card to Mr Donnelly in which he described him as ?the father I never had.?
And a Mother?s Day card he sent to Leanne expresses his deep love and gratitude for everything she had done for him.
Yet in the weeks since Zimmerman?s acquittal his treatment of his wife and of the friends who supported him has left this couple, once such staunch supporters, feeling ?hurt, angry and used.?
The couple ? who suffered death threats for their testimony - have not had any contact with Zimmerman since the day he was acquitted.
Leanne revealed: ?It?s very sad for us. To not even get a phone call or a text after the fact saying thank you for helping me or I appreciate your support?it really stings.
On hearing the news of yesterday?s altercation Leanne described Zimmerman as ?a powder keg ready to blow.?
She and her husband expressed ?relief? that nobody had been hurt. Both had been living in fear that, in his post-acquittal ?recklessness? Zimmerman would ?get himself into a situation? and end up hurt or dead.
Mr Donnelly admitted: ?I?m fearful for him, for what he might get himself into. I would take that gun of his and throw it to the bottom of the nearest lake.
?He?s burned every bridge that he?s ever had. And I don?t know how he?s going to come back because his bridges are gone.?
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