A driver called Lake Mary police earlier this week, accusing former Neighborhood Watch volunteer George Zimmerman of threatening to shoot him during a road-rage incident. 
 
 Zimmerman, 30, was not arrested. 
 
 Lake Mary Police Chief Steve Bracknell said the man, 35-year-old Matthew Apperson of Winter Springs, did not want to press charges, so there would be no arrest. 
 
 Apperson told a 911 dispatcher Tuesday morning that he was driving his Honda Accord on Lake Mary Boulevard, made a U-turn and headed west-bound when a Honda Ridgeline truck pulled alongside and someone inside rolled down his window. 
 
 "George Zimmerman was the driver, and they were threatening to kick my ___ and to shoot me," Apperson told the dispatcher. 
 
 Apperson said he pulled into a Circle K to find a phone so he could call for help when the Ridgeline made a maneuver to block him and "almost hit my car." 
 
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 Zimmerman "said he was going to shoot me dead," Apperson told the dispatcher. 
 
 According to a police report, a store surveillance video showed that as Apperson was walking into the store, the Ridgeline left. 
 
 Apperson said he did not see any weapons in Zimmerman's truck, but police discovered that Apperson was carrying a gun. He has a concealed weapons permit, according to the report. 
 
 Two days later, Apperson called Lake Mary police again to report that he believed Zimmerman had followed him and was watching his movements. 
 
 Police investigated, found Zimmerman in his Ridgeline nearby, pulled him over and questioned him. He told them he had a doctor's appointment in a nearby building. 
 
 They took a handgun from him but returned it near the end of their eight-minute exchange, according to an officer's body video camera and patrol car dash camera. 
 
 Zimmerman appeared relaxed and at ease, especially shortly before departing. He shook hands with the two officers before climbing back into his truck, the video shows. 
 
 Bracknell said Apperson did not want to press charges the second time either. 
 
 Zimmerman was acquitted last year of murdering Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black 17-year-old, whom he fatally shot Feb. 26, 2012, in a Sanford neighborhood. 
 
 Since then, he's had several run-ins with police. He spent two days in the Seminole County Jail in November after his then-girlfriend accused him of threatening her with a shotgun, pushing her out the door of their home and locking it. 
 
 She later recanted, and prosecutors dropped the case. 
 
 Two months earlier, his estranged wife, Shellie, and her father accused Zimmerman of threatening them with a gun as the couple tried to divide up their personal belongings. However, neither Shellie Zimmerman nor her father said they ever saw a gun - only that Zimmerman acted as if he had one and appeared to move his hand toward it. 
 
 He was handcuffed that day but released. 
 
 Sentinel staffer Stephen Hudak contributed to this report. rstutzman@tribune.com or 407-650-65394 ||||| Lake Mary police arrested a Winter Springs man Friday on charges related to a shooting involving George Zimmerman earlier this week. 
 
 Matthew Apperson, 35, turned himself in Friday evening, police spokeswoman Bianca Gillett said. 
 
 Apperson was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and firing a deadly missile into an occupied conveyance. 
 
 "After conducting numerous interviews throughout the week, detectives determined that Mr. Apperson did intentionally fire his weapon into the vehicle occupied by George Zimmerman without provocation," Gillett said in a statement. 
 
 Apperson is being held on no bond, Seminole County Sheriff's spokeswoman Kristen Bentsen said. 
 
 Apperson is accused of firing into a car Zimmerman was driving Monday. Zimmerman had only minor injuries from glass cutting his face. 
 
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 Zimmerman and Apperson clashed twice in September. Both times, Apperson declined to press charges against him. 
 
 After Monday's incident, Apperson told police that Zimmerman pointed a gun at him and said, "I'm going to kill you," a police report shows. 
 
 Apperson said that's why he fired one shot into the car, according to the police report. He would not answer more questions. 
 
 On Wednesday, Zimmerman told a much different version of the story. Zimmerman told police that he was making a U-turn on West Lake Mary Boulevard when Apperson drove up behind him and yelled, "You remember me, you fat [expletive]?" through his open passenger's side window. 
 
 Zimmerman told police he did not recognize Apperson, according to a police report. 
 
 Zimmerman claimed Apperson kept yelling at him: "You owe me your life. The only reason I didn't press charges on you is because I wanted to kill you myself." 
 
 Zimmerman told police he laughed at Apperson and called him a "clown." 
 
 According to Zimmerman, he made the U-turn and tried to drive away, but Apperson pulled up next to him and fired. 
 
 After Apperson's arrest, his lawyer, Mark NeJame, said he thinks police decided to arrest Apperson after interviewing Zimmerman on Wednesday. 
 
 "Mr. Apperson, under the advice of counsel and exercising his constitutional right, did not provide additional statements to law enforcement," NeJame said. "He had already made statements, and this is deemed sufficient as of now." 
 
 Apperson's arrest was "neither unusual nor was it unexpected," NeJame said. 
 
 "The case will proceed through the criminal-justice system appropriately, and ultimately a determination will be made as [to] what truly happened," NeJame said. 
 
 Zimmerman, a former Neighborhood Watch volunteer, was acquitted in the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford. 
 
 In September, Apperson called police and said Zimmerman threatened to shoot him during a road-rage incident. Apperson did not want to press charges, and no one was arrested. 
 
 Two days later, he called police again saying he thought Zimmerman was following him. 
 
 Lake Mary police officers found Zimmerman in his truck nearby. He said he had a doctor's appointment and spoke with the officers calmly, video footage from an officer's body camera showed. 
 
 Apperson again declined to press charges. 
 
 Update: Click here for information on Apperson's first appearance. 
 
 glotan@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5774
– George Zimmerman is making headlines again, and these ones aren't good, either. A man in Lake Mary, Fla., says Zimmerman threatened to shoot him in a road rage confrontation, then showed up two days later near the man's work site, reports the Orlando Sentinel. Though he called police, who arrived and confirmed that it was indeed Zimmerman, the other man declined to press charges and Zimmerman wasn't arrested. Officers briefly confiscated a handgun from Zimmerman, who was acquitted last year in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, but returned it to him, shook hands, and sent him on his way. The incident began Tuesday morning, when 35-year-old Matthew Apperson made a U-turn on Lake Mary Boulevard and a truck soon pulled up alongside. He recognized the driver as Zimmerman, who reportedly said, "Do you know who I am? I will kill you," reports AP. When Apperson pulled off at a gas to phone police, Zimmerman followed but left before officers arrived. Two days later, Apperson called 911 again when he spotted Zimmerman in his truck, near Apperson's place of work. Zimmerman told officers he had a doctor's appointment nearby.