He may or may not have had a prior history of such violence, but there can be little doubt he was a wannabe! E.g., have a look at his Twitter account. Here is the inspiring background picture he chose to set the tone for visitors to his Twitter page:
That’s the mug shot of rapper Corey Miller, aka C-Murder, who is doing life without parole for beating up and shooting to death 16-year-old Steve Thomas in 2002 at a night club in Harvey, Louisiana. Quite the hero for Trayvon to worship!
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Clicked on your link to the twitter account and get the following message:
“Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!”
Looks like the scrubbing continues.
Looks like the scrubbing continues.
The mystery is how it got undeleted yesterday, then redeleted today. See the Daily Caller's piece on it.
I had earlier unearthed a Google cache of it, dated Feb 6, 2012 12:29:45 GMT, here. (You may need to disable JavaScript to avoid being redirected to a blank Twitter page.) I was quite surprised when that DC article popped up yesterday.