A Florida man who never owned a cellphone because he had been in prison for 19 years almost immediately started getting threatening calls when he bought one last month, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

Callers, he says, were ringing at all hours, some shouting, "You murderer!" or "You deserve to die!"

It took a couple of days, but Junior Alexander Guy, 49, finally figured it out: He had been randomly assigned the cellphone number that belonged to George Zimmerman the night he called 911 after shooting Trayvon Martin.

Zimmerman, in jail awaiting a bond hearing, faces second-degree murder charges for shooting the unarmed black teenager in February in what he calls self-defense.

The cellphone number — 407-435-2400 — showed up on the tape of a widely distributed 911 call because Zimmerman spelled it out to the dispatcher that night, the newspaper says.

T-Mobile tells the Sentinel that it has changed Guy's number and retired the old one.

It is also giving Alexander an account credit, the newspaper reports, and generously waived his early termination fee.