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ZIMMERMAN TRIAL:Witness Says 'Lighter Skin' Man on Bottom in Fight Jun 28th 2013, 15:17, by A resident of the Florida community where George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin last year after a confrontation took the stand Friday and described going out to investigate a noise and seeing one person straddling another with "punches being thrown" down at the person on the ground. John Good said he was watching TV with his wife when they heard a noise and he went out to investigate, despite his wife warning him not to. At first, he thought a dog might be attacking someone, but as he moved closer, he said he observed what looked like "a tussle" between two people. "It looked like a tussle," Good said. "I could only see one person. At one point, I yelled out, 'What's going on? Stop it,' I believe," Good said. Under questioning by prosecutors, the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with second-degree murder, Good said one of the combatants was straddling a man lying face up on the pavement, and throwing punches. The testimony appeared to corroborate Zimmerman's claims that he shot the 17-year-old African-American with a legally registered gun in self defense, as he was being pummeled. "I could tell that the person on the bottom had a lighter skin color," testified Good, who also said the person on the bottom appeared to be wearing "white or red," while the one on top wore dark clothing. That also would corroborate Zimmerman's claims he was on the losing end of a violent confrontation when he fired the fatal shot. But Good said he did not see the person on top slam the other one's head into the pavement. Zimmerman had wounds to his scalp following the confrontation.  Good, who was calling 911 when he heard a gunshot, listened as an audio recording of his call was played in the courtroom. "It looks like there's a black guy down and he's dead," Good said on the call. The testimony came as Zimmerman's murder trial entered its fifth day Friday, a day after the former neighborhood watch volunteer's attorney tried to demonstrate that the woman who was on the phone with Trayvon Martin shortly before he was fatally shot was not believable because her story changed over the course of the last year. An attorney for Martin's family, meanwhile, suddenly declared Thursday that the high-profile case was not about race. "It's not about racial profiling," Daryl Parks told reporters. "He was profiled (criminally). George Zimmerman profiled him." Parks made the comments after prosecutors spent several days arguing that Zimmerman profiled the 17-year-old specifically because he was black. Asked why he changed his take on the matter, Parks replied: "We never claimed this was about race."  Zimmerman, 29, has said he opened fire only after the teenager jumped him and began slamming his head against the concrete sidewalk. Zimmerman identifies himself as Hispanic and has denied that his confrontation with the black teenager had anything to do with race, as Martin's family and its supporters have claimed. Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty, claiming self-defense. He could face life in prison if convicted. Fox News' Serafin Gomez and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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