Otherwise, it’s more likely he was just out of breath. He’s not a trained athlete so he doesn’t know how to manage his resources.
A kid, when scared enough to run, will run with all he’s got, and get winded really fast. In sports they teach you how not to run full out so you can last longer. After a swift walk from 711 because of the impending rain, Trayvon probably had little left when he took off running south from GZ. He would probably burn out at less than a football field length. At which point, his only options would be to either keep walking or hide. Since he couldn’t run anymore, his instincts would tell him to hide, rather than stay out in the open where “crazy guy” could see him.

In addition to not having any reason to believe that the creepy man following him in a vehicle would get out of the vehicle and follow him on foot in the rain, TM had another good reason to stop before he reached the safety of Brandi Green’s townhome. That reason was Dee Dee’s phone call. He wanted privacy and he was willing to stand outside in the rain in order to have it.

I don’t know what the temperature was, but I’ll bet he was shivering and cold.

Hormones affect a teenager’s judgment. I remember some of the stupid stuff I did at that age to get and maintain a girl’s attention. Plus, he was lonely away from his friends in the Big City and she was his source of information regarding what they were doing during his 10 day banishment.

The smart thing for him to have done would have been to never lose sight of the creepy man, but the lad was . . . distracted.

***I have seen this post more then once

FT tries to say “he has issues”, but that’s from a guy whose supposed to be a friend? Pretending to support him, while sending him down the drain?

Taaffe has “short-term vision.”

But, on the other hand, since that’s all we have, and it seems to be all we’re going to get, it’s better let go. None of these characters had better appear in any subsequent similar events of this type.

GZ is finished and MOM knows it, he’s got to find things to do to busy himself with billable hours. He’s still got to craft the best defense he possibly can, poor fella. About the only thing he can do while given this stage to perform on is, try to come across as a good personality. If so, that image will survive the trial loss.

I don’t believe that this was some sort of trophy kill, initiation project, premeditation, stalking for days, rite of passage, and other out there theories that were being put forth. Too outlandish for me; this is all about GZ.