Susan Louise Lorincz, who tormented her neighbor Ajike Owens’ children with racial slurs and then shot the mother-of-four dead when she came to complain

Lorincz, 60, fired a bullet from her Remington .380 handgun at Ajike Owens, through her front door when her neighbor knocked

She then called 911 to report that she’d shot a trespasser

Owens, 35, who was standing next to her 12-year-old son on the doorstep in Ocala, Florida, on on June 2, 2023 was hit and killed

Lorincz told police she was in ‘fear of her life’ when she fired through the locked door at the unarmed mother-of-four, and that the state’s ‘stand your ground’ law empowers her to fire at the perceived threat

Police instigated her claim but arrested her four days later, and on Friday the jury rejected her claim of self-defense and convicted Lorincz for manslaughter

She faces up to 30 years in jail at sentencing

Susan Lorincz, 60, faces up to 30 years in jail for manslaughter after being convicted of shooting dead Ajike Owens, 35, when the neighbor came to her doorstep in June last year.

A 60-yearold Florida woman with a history of harassment targeting her black neighbors’ children with racial slurs, shot their mother dead when she came over to complain about the treatment of her children, has been convicted of manslaughter.
Susan Louise Lorincz, 60, fired a bullet from her Remington .380 handgun at Ajike Owens, 35, who was standing next to her 12-year-old son on the doorstep in Ocala, Florida, on June 2, 2023.
Lorincz told police she was in ‘fear of her life’ when she fired through the locked door at the unarmed mother-of-four, and that the state’s ‘stand your ground’ law empowers her to fire at the perceived threat.
Police took four days to arrest Lorincz as they tested those claims.
Owen’s mother Pamela Dias said she had found ‘some peace’ after a jury rejected her claim of self-defense on Friday: ‘My heart is a little lighter, and we’re now on the path of true healing,’ Dias said.

Killed: Ajike Owens was shot dead when she went over to confront neighbor Susan Lorincz’s home after hearing allegations she threw a rollerblade at one of her children earlier in the day and smashed a tablet, before swinging an umbrella

Police took four days to arrest Lorincz as they tested her claims, but Owen’s mother Pamela Dias said she had found ‘some peace’ after a jury rejected her claim of self-defense on Friday.
‘My heart is a little lighter, and we’re now on the path of true healing,’ Dias added.
Owens went over to Lorincz’s home on June 2 last year to confront her over allegations she threw a rollerblade at one of her children earlier in the day and smashed a tablet, before swinging an umbrella.
Lorincz, an insurance agent, told police during her interview that Owens’ children had been ‘trespassing’ on her property, and one had threatened to ‘beat her up’. But neighbors revealed that the defendant ‘had a problem with kids’ and would record them before taunting them with slurs as well as waving her guns around in their direction.

Susan Lorincz claims she was in ‘fear of her life’ when she fired through the locked door at the unarmed mother-of-four, and that the state’s ‘stand your ground’ law allowed her to shoot her Remington .380 handgun at the woman

Phyllis Wills, 33, recalls that Lorincz would ‘harass’ her kids, adding: ‘Everybody in this neighborhood has feuded with this lady over our children.’
Other parents said they called her a ‘Karen’ after she repeatedly filmed their children and called the police about their antics.
‘It’s an apartment complex. These are children who, you know, they’re, they’re going to do things,’ Willis said.
‘Every time they’ve went even in the patch of grass over there, she would be like, ‘Get off of my lawn, you b****** or you retards or you N-word.’ She would wave guns at them.’
When interviewed by police, one of Owens’ sons claimed that Lorincz had previously called them ‘B******’ and ‘jack****s’ as well as saying: ‘This isn’t the underground railroad, slave.’

Lorincz claimed she was in fear for her life and that Florida’s ‘stand your ground’ law allowed her to fire her Remington .380 handgun through her locked front door at her neighbor. Law enforcement and the jury disagreed

It was four days from the crime before cops finally arrested Lorincz as they tested her stand your ground claims. Unrepentant, she wore a suicide-prevention vest at her court appearances last year 

The women, Lorincz and Owens, were neighbors in the same apt complex and Lorincz had called 911 at 8.54pm on June 2 to complain that the children were trespassing and shouting outside her door

Owens reportedly told her son, 12, to call 911 after she was hit by the bullet, with the young boy telling officers she ‘was only knocking on the door’. She was rushed to hospital, where she later died.
Lorincz called 911 after the shooting to lodge a trespassing complaint, before mentioning that she had shot a woman on her doorstep.
‘I was never intending to kill,’ she told police later. ‘I was shaking. I was just so distraught at that point in time. I felt like I was in mortal danger.’
Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods dismissed her version of events as ‘BS’, noting that videos captured on security cameras at neighboring properties ‘were the final nail.’

The patch on the upper right, of Lorincz’s front door is covering the bullet hole from firing at her neighbor when she knocked. Owens was hit and died from her injuries

Woods said accounts from Owens’ children were backed up by the surveillance footage seen by cops.
‘There are things that people say that we’re able to prove is a yellow flag – a b******t flag – and say no that is wrong,’ he told a local station.
‘She couldn’t see through the door, she couldn’t see the individual. So her comments that she was in fear of her life… raises the hair on the back of our neck.’
Investigators found two surveillance cameras inside Lorincz’s home, with one facing the patio and the other attached to the sliding door.
She told them that the cameras were functional but only record motion and ‘at night sometimes do not capture anything.’

Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods called the shooter’s version ‘BS’. On the contrary, accounts from victim’s children matched surveillance footage from a neighbor’s home 

The cameras are accessible through her phone, and after initially declining to give the passcode, Lorincz handed over the phone.
Officers could not see any recording after 8.40pm the night of the incident, but Lorincz denied deleting any recordings.
It later emerged she had been left in possession of her phone for two hours after being placed inside of a police car – and footage showed her accessing it briefly, but investigators were unable to determine what she had done with it.
Family members had called for the manslaughter charge to be upgraded to murder, but one exclaimed ‘Oh, God. Thank you, Jesus,’ as the jury delivered its verdict on Friday.
Florida law allows for the use of deadly force if a person ‘reasonably believes’ their life is in imminent danger. But the jury decided that Lorincz had no reason to believe that when she shot the unarmed mother standing outside her locked front door.

False claim: The arrest affidavit revealed Lorincz called 911 to report that a ‘female tried to break down her door while yelling’ so she shot her

‘Not only was Susan Lorincz on trial today, but so was ‘stand your ground’ and how that’s defined,’ attorney Anthony D. Thomas said afterwards.
‘I think we made one step closer with case law and defining what ‘stand your ground’ actually means.
‘No, you cannot claim to be in fear of your life. No, you can’t bait the police by telling them you’re in fear for your life over the phone to make sure they hurry up and get there,’ Thomas said.
Judge Robert Hodges ordered that Lorincz be held in the Marion County jail without bond until her sentencing at a later date.