White Florida woman sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting Black neighbor in lengthy dispute
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A white Florida woman who fatally shot a Black neighbor through her front door amid a long-running dispute has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for her manslaughter conviction.

A white Florida woman who fatally shot a Black neighbor through her front door during an ongoing dispute over the neighbor’s boisterous children faces sentencing Monday for her manslaughter conviction.

Susan Lorincz, 60, was convicted in August of killing 35-year-old Ajike “A.J.” Owens by firing a single shot from her .380-caliber handgun in June 2023. Lorincz faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in state prison because a firearm was used.

The shooting was the culmination of a long-running argument between the two neighbors over Owens’ children playing in a grassy area at both of their houses in Ocala, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northwest of Orlando.

  • Flocklesscrow@lemm.eeEnglish
    1122·
    17 days ago

    “Unhinged Florida Boomer destroys lives…faces consequences of own actions”

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      67·
      17 days ago

      And loose gun laws, and racism, and the media stoking fear.

      Edit: I’m guessing she lived alone and had nothing better to do with her time, so let’s throw a lack of social support on the pile too.

  • actually@lemmy.world
    264·
    17 days ago

    I followed this news story and “a long running argument” between two people was not my takeaway ?

    • statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      72·
      17 days ago

      Yeah, it seemed like a disturbed old lady hurling abuse and calling the cops on everyone in the neighborhood, especially the kids who were playing in an empty yard, that she did not own, next door to the woman’s apartment. The kids had permission from the owner of the land and he even played sports with them there.

      There’s video of her trying to get the cops to trespass a man out of the parking lot while they interviewed him about a prior complaint she made against the kids playing.

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      262·
      17 days ago

      ‘Long running argument’ is not referring to the one encounter when she murdered her neighbor, but the ongoing conflict across a long period of time like months or years.

      • actually@lemmy.world
        523·
        17 days ago

        she had long running arguments with most of her neighbors and the person killed was not in “greater argument” than the many kids and adults who were verbally abused over years.

        This is my mini hill I am standing on today: AP press normalized a neighborhood terror.

        • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          17 days ago

          I was commenting on only the duration off the ‘argument’. They certainly minimized her shitty behavior, and I used ‘murdered’ intentionally to counter that.

          I’ll help you defend that hill.

    • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      12·
      17 days ago

      In the video of her first interrogation, shown to jurors Wednesday, Lorincz tells detectives she’d previously argued with Owens about her children playing loudly and leaving toys outside her home. But she tells police the situation escalated on June 2, 2023, after she confronted the children about the noise and threw their roller skates. CNN

      The confrontation was the latest in a dispute between Lorincz and Owens over the latter’s children playing in a grassy area near both of their houses. Lorincz said in the interview she had been harassed for most of the three years she lived in the neighbourhood. AP

      Woods said the shooting happened during an apparent “neighborhood feud” that had been going for sometime between the suspect and the victim.

      Records show that 911 had been called a half-dozen times since 2021 involving Lorincz and Owens. In two cases – February 2022 and April 2023 – Lorincz called 911 because she was upset that Owens’ dog was on her property, and called months later to report that Owens had repeatedly opened her mailbox. She told deputies, according to the report, that she was not missing any mail. Fox

      • actually@lemmy.world
        151·
        17 days ago

        That simply does not represent the sheer terror, the troublemaking of op. It’s a partial snapshot. This woman terrorized her neighbors for years

        • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          6·
          17 days ago

          You said …

          I followed this news story and “a long running argument” between two people was not my takeaway ?

          My reply listing media quotes was to that.

          • actually@lemmy.world
            1·
            17 days ago

            Fair enough, but I was all riled up over those two words on an otherwise excellent article.

            I just happen to think those two words are very important

    • horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world
      4·
      16 days ago

      Lonely and fearful was likely what her life was before she murdered that poor neighbor. The system failed her and now it’s failing her other neighbors by not giving her life in a mental health facility away from the public. She should have been put into a care home away from access to firearms a long time ago and likely A.J would still be alive.

      • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
        513·
        16 days ago

        Turn it round -

        Black man who fatally shot white neighbor

        If that sounds like racist goading, it does the other way too

        Yanks are fucking weird about people’s skin. Sort yourselves out

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      15 days ago

      Is it? She shot her in no small part because she was black. She was racist, shouted racial slurs, and targeted this woman repeatedly.

      This is like asking why we keep mentioning Jews being the victims in the holocaust.

    • FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world
      21·
      16 days ago

      Agreed. Maybe race had nothing to do with it, but the news headline obviously suggests it is. If it was racism, why not just call it out instead if alluding to it?

      • Zacpod@lemmy.world
        9·
        15 days ago

        Race had everything to do with it. Lady was repeatedly heard dropping the N word and calling the kids N-lets. She didn’t like that black kids were playing in a field near her apt, or that black me were waiting for busses at the bus stop near her house.

        This murder was the culmination of her ongoing racism, and bullying of the neighborhood children.

        Her interrogation is available on YouTube and it’s chilling.