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George and Shellie Zimmerman, shown here in court in June before his acquittal.
By Kerry Sanders and Tracy Connor, NBC News
George Zimmerman’s wife used her iPad to record a confrontation with her husband, and investigators are trying to recover the footage, Florida police said Tuesday.
“We’re going to be taking it to be forensically analyzed,” Lake Mary, Fla., Police public information officer Zach Hudson told NBC News. ”It should have a good bit of information on it.”
The iPad was broken into pieces during Monday’s dispute between George Zimmerman and his wife Shellie — who called 911 and said her husband threatened her with a handgun and attacked her father.
Police responded but no one was charged.
“We have absolutely no proof whatsoever that a weapon was involved in this incident,” Hudson said.
After five years of marriage, Shellie Zimmerman filed for divorce less than a week ago — a month after her husband was acquitted of murder in the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin.
Hudson said it’s possible someone could eventually be charged with domestic battery stemming from Tuesday afternoon’s incident, but they are still trying to sort out what happened.
In the 911 call obtained by NBC News, Shellie Zimmerman told the dispatcher her husband had "accosted" her father and "punched" him in the nose, leaving a "mark" on his face.
But fire officials who responded to the scene found no visible injuries on any of the parties, officials said.
At the beginning of the call, Shellie Zimmerman told the dispatcher: "He's in his car and he continually has his hand on his gun and he keeps saying, 'Step closer.' He's just threatening all of us with his firearm."
She later alleged that her husband took the iPad out of her hands and "smashed and cut it with a pocket knife."
"I don't know what he's capable of," she said on the call. "I'm really, really scared."
Police said George Zimmerman portrayed his wife as the aggressor in the confrontation.
In addition to the iPad, investigators will be reviewing security video from the house and from dashboard cameras on the cars of the responding officers, Hudson said.
In late August, Shellie Zimerman pleaded guilty to a perjury charge for misleading a Florida court about her family’s finances during a bail hearing for her husband. Her plea deal — in which she avoided a felony conviction — gave her a year’s probation and 100 hours of community service.
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