Shellie Zimmerman Interview: Doubts Linger About Estranged Husband's Innocence in Trayvon Martin Case (Video)

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Shellie Zimmerman, the estranged wife of the former neighborhood watchman, said Thursday that while she respects the jury's not guilty verdict in George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial, she may have doubts about his innocence, HLNtv.com reported.

"I believe the evidence, but this revelation in my life has really helped me to take the blinders off and start to see things differently," Shellie Zimmerman said in an interview on the "Today" show on Thursday morning.

She and her husband have had troubles since the verdict, including earlier this month involving a fight, which may have also involved a gun, as police were called in.

Shellie Zimmerman has not pressed charges but police are still investigating the case.

"I think anyone would doubt that innocence because I don't know the person that I have been married to," she said.

George Zimmerman was acquitted on July 13 in the death of Trayvon Martin, which sparked protests throughout the country, despite evidence suggesting that. Zimmerman only shot the teenager in self-defense.

Shellie Zimmerman, did reiterate that she does not believe that George profiled Trayvon Martin because of he was black.

"So had Trayvon Martin been white, you think the night would have ended in the same tragic fashion?" Matt Lauer asked.

"Yes, I do," she responded.

Shellie Zimmerman called 911 just days after filing for divorce, claiming her estranged husband got violent. She said that he punched her father in the nose, took her iPad out of her hands, smashed it and cut it with a pocket knife.

"I did not see a gun, but I saw -- I know my husband. I saw him in a stance and a look in his eyes that I have never seen before she said. "His shirt was halfway unbuttoned and he was putting his hand in his shirt and saying, 'Please step closer, please step closer,' so I think that logically I assumed he had a gun on him," she said

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