(CNN) -- Trayvon Martin should be remembered as a happy, smiling teenager, says his soft-spoken older brother. Martin, 17, was an honors student with his own college dreams, according to Jahvaris Fulton. But Martin's life ended on February 26 in Sanford, Florida, during an encounter with neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. "He probably was going to be someone," Fulton, in an interview aired Friday night on CNN's "AC360," said of Martin. Fulton humorously recalled Martin's first time riding on a horse. "His horse had some problems. It wanted to be a bully to everybody else's horse. He (Martin) handled it. He was the first one to learn how to control him."
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Trayvon Martin was a happy teenager, older brother says
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He tells "AC360" his brother wasn't violent, confrontational
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They went horseback riding a week before Trayvon died
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George Zimmerman claims he acted in self-defense
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