Florida woman arrested for shooting her black neighbor neighbor after a two-years long feud over the victim’s kids playing outside in a field near her home, on Friday

Mother-of-four Ajike “AJ” Owens, 35, died from her injuries after being shot through her white neighbor’s front door in Ocala, Florida, after the pair continued a long feud over the kids playing

Susan Lorincz, 58, is facing a charge of manslaughter with a firearm and culpable negligence for the after fatal shooting of her neighbor through her front door during an argument

Lorincz was in custody Tuesday, four days after the shooting, as protests were held calling for authorities to make an arrest

“Let me make that clear, this was not ‘stand your ground.’ It was an unjustified shooting,” said Sheriff Billy Woods, expressing his disbelief that the shooter acted in self-defense

Lorincz is also charged with assault and battery against Owens’ kids for throwing a skates which hit one child as they played in an earlier altercation

Ajike “AJ” Owens, 35, [photo], was shot through her neighbor’s front door on Friday after the pair continued a two-year long feud over kids playing outside. The mother-of-four died from her injuries

A Florida woman who fatally shot her neighbor, the deadly conclusion to a years-long feud about the victim’s children playing outside, was arrested and charged late Tuesday, authorities said.
Susan Lorincz, 58, was taken into custody and charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of Ajike “AJ” Owens, Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said in a video posted on Facebook shortly after midnight Wednesday. 
The arrest came after protests were held calling for authorities to arrest the shooter in the racially charged case.

Murder suspect Susan Lorincz [center], is facing a charge of manslaughter with a firearm and culpable negligence for the after fatal shooting of her neighbor through her front door during an argument – but only after protests were held calling for authorities to make an arrest

But sheriff’s officials originally were hesitant to charge Lorincz as detectives sorted out whether she acted in self-defense in accordance with Florida’s stand-your-ground laws.
“Ms. Lorincz’s fate is now in the hands of the judicial system, which I trust will deliver justice in due course,” Woods said in a statement.
“As I go to bed tonight, I will be saying a prayer for Ms. Owens’ children and the rest of her family. I’d ask all of you to do the same.”

Civil rights attorney Bren Crump highlighted the case of Owens who approached Susan Lorincz at her apt after she threw a pair skates that hit them, leading to the argument and the shooting. Sheriff Woods has said “Let me make that clear — this was not ‘stand your ground.’ It was an unjustified shooting”

35-year-old mother of four, Ajike Owen was shot dead through her neighbor’s door in Ocala on Friday night in what Woods said in a Monday press conference was the culmination of a two-and-a-half-year feud at an apartment complex.
The Sheriff’s department said the Susan Lorincz was angry at the children playing in a field near her home. Owens had gone to her neighbor’s home after the woman yelled at her children as they played in a nearby lot, Woods said Monday.

Authorities in Marion County, Florida said they do not believe the actions on Susan Lorincz meet the the standards of the the state’s stand your ground law. She was arrested Tuesday and will be in court on Wednesday

The neighbor had also thrown a pair of skates that hit one of the children, the sheriff previously said. The children left an iPad in the field which Lorincz confiscated. The oldest of the children approached her home to retrieve the item but she opened the front door and swung an umbrella at him, before he went to tell his mother.
When Owens went to the door and knocked, Lorincz shot her once through the door, with her 10-year-old standing beside her. Owens was hit in the chest and died shortly after from her injuries
Lorincz has claimed that she shot in self-defense, because Owens was trying to break her door down.
Marion County authorities said eye witness accounts and surveillance camera footage do not match her version. Some of the neighbors said Lorincz was yelling racial slurs at the children.

Lorincz shot Owens once in the chest through the front door when the latter knocked on the door

Sheriff Billy Woods told Fox 35 that investigators had to get the full picture of what happened, including talking to the victim’s four kids, before an arrest was made.
“And we got a bigger picture, the full picture. And my detectives wanted to make sure that we closed all the loopholes, so she would not have the defense of using the ‘stand your ground’ law, and this is not ‘stand your ground,’” the sheriff told FOX 35.
“Let me make that clear — this was not ‘stand your ground.’ It was an unjustified shooting” – meaning the shooter didn’t act in self-defense.
Lorincz is facing a charge of manslaughter with a firearm and culpable negligence, the sheriff’s office said. The culpable negligence charge is because children were present during the commission of a crime, Woods told the station.
Lorincz is also charged with assault and battery against Owens’ kids from the earlier altercation before the shooting, the station reported.
The sheriff’s office said in the release announcing the arrest that the shooter claimed she pulled the trigger in self-defense and accused Owens of trying to break down the door.

Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods, [center], told FOX 35 in the case of Ajike Owens being fatally shot by Susan Lorincz, “We got a bigger picture, the full picture. And my detectives wanted to make sure that we closed all the loopholes, so she would not have the defense of using the ‘stand your ground’ law, and this is not ‘stand your ground”

Owens and the shooter were involved in numerous fights since January 2021, Woods said, with deputies called at least a half-dozen times concerning the clash.
On Friday, Lorincz who is white, allegedly yelled racial slurs at Owens’ children, who are black, according to prominent civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing Owens’ family.
Authorities have not yet confirmed whether any slurs were said or if race was a factor in the shooting following Crump’s allegations that were made before the arrest. 
Owens’ four children, who range in age from 2 to 12, were all at the scene of the shooting when deputies arrived, according to a police report obtained by WKMG.

Protesters gathered at the state attorney’s office at the Marion County Courthouse on Tuesday demanding the shooter’s arrest. Lorincz was subsequently arrested for manslaughter on Tuesday, four days after the shooting

During a dispute between Lorincz and the young kids, she threw a roller skate that hit a 10-year-old boy, the sheriff’s office said Wednesday.
When the boy and his 12-year-old brother went to her door, she allegedly opened her door and swung an umbrella at them, the sheriff’s office said.
Owens then went to confront the woman and demanded she come outside.
The mother was shot once with her 10-year-old son by her side, authorities said.
Lauren Smith, who lives across the street from where the shooting took place, was on her porch Friday and saw one of Owens’ young sons pacing, and yelling, “They shot my mama, they shot my mama,” she told the Associated Press.

A small memorial was placed where Ajike Owens was fatally shot on Friday by a neighbor during a dispute over kids playing outside

Smith ran to the house and started doing chest compressions on Owens until EMTs arrived. She said there was no altercation and that the mother did not have a weapon.
The neighbor “was angry all the time that the children were playing out there,” Smith said. “She would say nasty things to them. Just nasty.”
Smith said the neighborhood is “family friendly” and the fact that the shooter is claiming self-defense is “outrageous.”
Woods said that since January 2021, deputies responded at least a half-dozen times in connection with the feuding between Owens and the shooter.
“My baby was so full of life. She was a single mother of four,” Owens’ mother, Pamela Dias, said during a news conference on Monday.