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SANFORD, Fla. - A Sanford police car parked near the apartment complex of the Trayvon Martin shooting scene was found Tuesday morning with bullet holes in it, according to Sanford police.
The car was parked across the street from the Retreat at Twin Lakes apartment complex, near the front of Bentley Elementary School.
Police said no one was inside the cruiser, but gunfire knocked out at least one window on the car.
Witnesses said they hear at least six shots; two bullets hit the patrol car.
Police moved the car away from the scene, and an investigation is ongoing.
Martin, 17, was shot and killed in late February by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, who claims he acted in self-defense.
Zimmerman, 28, has not been charged with a crime in Martin's death, a fact that has provoked demonstrations and calls that he be prosecuted for killing the teen.
On Monday, a group of students calling themselves the Dream Defenders marched to the Sanford police station. Six of the demonstrators wore hooded sweatshirts, as Martin did the night he was shot, as they blocked the department's main entrance; others linked arms, sang and chanted as they stood facing the building.
The demonstration closed the Police Department headquarters, and City Manager Norton Bonaparte Jr. and Acting Police Chief Darren Scott met with leaders of the student group and community leaders.
Although details of the Feb. 26 incident remain murky, what is known is that Martin, who was African-American, ventured out from his father's fiancee's home in Sanford to get a snack at a nearby convenience store. As he walked home with a bag of Skittles and an Arizona iced tea, he was shot and killed by Zimmerman, who is Hispanic, and who had called 911 to complain about a suspicious person in the neighborhood.
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