A white woman who fatally shot her Black neighbor in Ocala, Florida, has been arrested and charged in connection with the shooting death that’s garnered national attention.
Susan Lorincz, 58, faces multiple charges for shooting 35-year-old Ajike “AJ” Owens including a first-degree felony charge of manslaughter with a firearm as well as culpable negligence, battery, and two counts of assault. A conviction for manslaughter alone would put Lorincz behind bars for up to 30 years.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office released updated information related to their ongoing investigation into the deadly shooting.
After gathering more evidence, witness statements, and interviews with Owens’ children, detectives discovered that, over a period of time, Lorincz had become angry at Owens’ children who played in a field close to her apartment.
On June 2, after she began arguing with the kids, and threw a roller skate at Owens’ 10-year-old son, hitting him in the toe. The child and his 12-year-old brother went to speak to Lorincz. Lorincz opened the door and swung at them with an umbrella.
That’s when the kids went to tell their mother who then went to Lorincz’s home, knocked on the door multiple times, and demanded Lorincz answer. Lorincz fired one shot through the door, striking Owens in her upper chest. Owens’ 10-year-old son was standing right beside her when this happened.
Investigators who first responded to the shooting scene questioned Lorincz who claimed that she was acting in self-defense and that Owens had been trying to break down her door. She also said that Owens had physically attacked her in the past.
Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said that the shooting was the result of a two-and-a-half-year-long neighborhood feud between Lorincz and Owens. Deputies had been called to the area over that time at least a half-dozen times since January 2021. Lorincz would call to complain about Owens’ children.
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