George Zimmerman was taken into custody after a domestic battery incident involving a gun was confirmed, CBS News reported Monday.
Zimmerman, who has been acquitted in July of murdering Trayvon Martin, has been taken into custody in Lake Mary, Florida, following "an incident involving a gun with another person."
Gawker reported that police said they were prompted to a Sprucewood Road residence to investigate a domestic dispute involving George, his wife Shellie, and Shellie's father on Monday afternoon. However, it is still unclear whether the argument took place at Zimmerman's mother in law Machelle Dean's home.
Orlando Sentinel's Jeff Weiner stated on his report that the authorities have already confirmed that Zimmerman will be taken into custody for a "possible domestic battery."
Lake Mary Police Chief Steve Bracknell told CBS News that the officers did not find a gun when they arrived at the residence, where the alleged dispute took place.
CBS affiliate WKMG reported at 3:45 p.m. that George was no longer in custody, adding that police assumed a gun was inside Zimmerman's car, but didn't plan to get a warrant to examine or retrieve it.
"He's in his car and he continually has his hand on his gun and he keeps saying 'step closer' and he's just threatening all of us," Shellie said in her call to 911. She also mentioned that George was "trying to shut the garage door" on her.
"He punched my dad in the nose my dad has a mark on the nose. I saw his glasses were on the floor," Shellie added. "He then accosted my father then took my iPad out of my hands. He then smashed it and cut it with a pocketknife, and there is a Lake Mary city worker across the street that I believe saw all of it."
"I don't know if he's going to start shooting at us or something," Zimmerman's wife also added. "I don't know what he's capable of."
Lake Mary Police Spokesman Zach Hudson said that the station police are "trying to determine what exactly happened."
Shellie, who had filed for divorce a few days earlier, told Good Morning America in a recent interview that her husband has serious temper and verbal abuse issues.
Stipulated in the divorce petition was Shellie's request for permanent life insurance policy payment with her name ad beneficiary.
Meanwhile, Hudson said that no arrests have been made, and the estranged husband and wife are now blaming each other for the dispute.
Fox News reported that Shellie will not be pressing charges against her husband.
A recent update stated that police confirmed that Shellie is now claiming that she did not see a gun during their domestic dispute, a statement that contradicts what she had said in her 911 call.
It can be noted that Shellie Zimmerman pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor perjury and was sentenced to one year probation after she had been accused of lying about their financial situation on a testimony for George Zimmerman's bond hearing in June 2012.
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