He was neighborhood watch. It's what they do. And he was trying to furnish info which he couldn't do from his truck so he wouldn't be wasting the cops time.
Tray played cat and mouse in order to confront GZ instead of going home.
One thing that some folks can’t comprehend or get through their skulls is....a Neighborhood Watch job is different for different types of neighborhoods. My ex was temporarily our ‘watchperson’ in our neighborhood years back in Houston. But all he did was patrol up and down the streets in his truck, looking for suspicious activity.
IOW, in a non-gated neighborhood, the watchperson could and should stay in their truck/auto most, if not all, of the time...since that is the only thing they can do is drive up and down the streets.
In a gated condo community, however, the job is or can be much more pro-active as far as the necessity of getting out of your vehicle and observing in and around the housing units. Zimmerman was just doing the job thoroughly. Who knew he would encounter a teenage thug with a chip on his shoulder and already a record of getting into trouble and drugs.
I agree with you.
I think I finally got the idea across to her with the map. She thinks TM was scared and had a right to initiate a fight. I showed her the map. Maybe, at first, TM was scared.. If he was, he made it home and Could have stayed ther... End of story. But at some point, scared TM turned into Bad Ass TM, and THAT is when the trouble started.... Not when GZ got out of his truck.
That message seemed to resonate with her.