Why Trayvon may have been heading north on the dog path and still not "doubling back" to ambush GZ

[Tommy_Carcetti]

A lot has been made about why it supposedly would have taken Trayvon so long to get back to the house where he was staying after losing Zimmerman. People who believe Zimmerman's account believe this is somehow evidence that Trayvon decided to "double back" with the specific intention of "ambushing" Zimmerman.

Now, I've repeatedly asked as to the logic of such a theory: Why would someone who clearly sought to escape a dangerous situation (i.e. having a stranger chase you for no apparent reason) decide to make such a radical 180 decision to then turn around and voluntarily re-insert himself in that dangerous situation that he just sought to escape? As of yet, I've yet to hear any reason that has convinced me that it would be a logical response for any rational human being, young or old.

But let's put that aside for the moment.

And let's consider three things regarding the case:

1. Trayvon was not a regular resident of the community and likely wasn't intensely familiar with its layout and whose house was whose.
2. It was dark outside when this all occurred.
3. This is a townhouse community wherein all the units look pretty much identical to one another, especially from the back.

Now let's look at the map:



Note that from the dog path you wouldn't be able to see the front of the houses, only the back. To my knowledge there were no numbers on the back of the units. The numbers would only be on the front of the units. So it might not be clear to someone with little knowledge of the community which unit was which. Even worse in the dark and in the rain.

Even if Trayvon thought one of the units was Brandy Green's house and he could attempt to knock on the back slider to have her son let him in, if he was wrong and he was knocking on the wrong slider, it might make him look even worse, as if he were trying to break into someone's house.

So it would make logical sense for him to go back up the dog path and out to Retreat View Circle, where the fronts of the houses were and where he could see the numbers and identify which house was Brandy Green's.

But he would never get to Retreat View Circle. His life would end on the dog path.