Witness: Eloise Dilligard - Resident at Retreat at Twin Lakes
4:15 p.m.De la Rionda asks if she ever heard Martin’s voice.
She says that is correct she never heard his voice.
Dilligard is excused.
Judge Nelson asks the attorneys to approach.
4:14 p.m.The video connection was lost, but reconnected.
Dilligard explains how she drove to the area to get a better view of the crime scene.
She says the truck was parked on Retreat View Circle just to the left of the “T” area.
O’Mara finishes questioning.
De la Rionda begins cross examining.
4:08 p.m.Dilligard says she went back to the crime scene to see if Shellie was OK, but didn’t see her.
She says she gave an officer her name and phone number.
She gave statement to law enforcement after an FBI agent left a card on her door. She says he and another agent interviewed her at her house.
Dilligard says she heard the 911 call with the screams in the background first on a local news channel.
She has listened to it two or three times.
She says she heard the voice screaming in the background and has only heard Zimmerman talk.
She says she thinks it is Zimmerman’s voice.
She says he has a light male voice.
O’Mara holds a picture over the iPad to show her and have her identify where she saw Zimmerman’s truck.
O’Mara says it won’t work and he will move on.
3:55 p.m.She says she was shown a second picture but did not know the person’s name, but had seen him in passing possibly earlier that day.
She knows now that person was Trayvon Martin.
She says her first concern was where Zimmerman’s wife was.
She says she went to her house and knocked on Zimmerman’s house next door.
De la Rionda objects to Dilligard sharing what Shellie, Zimmerman’s wife said.
O’Mara asks to be heard at the bench.
3:52 p.m.She says she was returning to the neighborhood as police were pulling in. Dilligard says she saw crime scene tape being put up and went the back way to her house and asked some guys what was going on, and then she went toward the crime scene area.
She says it was very rainy that night.
She says she saw Zimmerman’s truck.
O’Mara asks her to describe the area the truck was located in.
She says she saw quite a few people standing on the sidewalk. She says she looked around to see if she saw Zimmerman because she saw his truck.
She says he asks a woman she recognized from an HOA meeting about what happened.
De la Rionda objects to hearsay.
Dilligard says she only asked what was going on.
She says she didn’t see Zimmerman and attempted to talk to other residents there, but as she was walking away a police officer said “You don’t want to talk to me.”
She says she didn’t know what she could tell him, but he said he was trying to identify the person involved.
The officer said he was going to take a picture to see if they recognized the victim or the other person.
She says he came back with two pictures.
Other people were present, a man and a married couple. She doesn’t remember their names.
She says she identified Zimmerman. The picture showed he had a bloody nose, she says.
Dilligard says his nose was bloody and looked disfigured.
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