Turns Out "Stand Your Ground" Didn't Stand for Ajike Owens' Shooter Story by Kalyn Womack
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Story by Kalyn Womack 1h ago
The woman who fatally shot a Black mother of four in Ocala, Florida has finally been arrested and charged, per The Washington Post. The arrest comes four days after residents and family members demanded justice be served for the heinous crime.
Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, was arrested Tuesday evening and charged with manslaughter with a firearm, culpable negligence, battery and two counts of assault in connection to the shooting death of Ajike AJ Owens, according to the Marion County Sheriffs Office. Lorincz is accused of shooting from behind her closed front door, striking Owens who stood outside with her 10-year-old son standing beside her. Owens was confronting Lorincz about allegedly throwing items at her children and yelling racial slurs at them. Shortly after, officers responded to a possible trespassing call and found Owens suffering from the gunshot wound and performed aid to try and save her life, the report says. She died moments later.
According to the sheriffs office, Lorincz told investigators that she and Owens had a past history of animosity and claimed that Owens previously attacked her. She said that she acted in self-defense in shooting Owens, and that Owens had been trying to break down her door prior to her discharging her firearm, the office said.
Initially, Sheriff Billy Woods was reluctant to make an arrest because it was speculated that Lorincz could have been protected under the stand your ground law. However, the Major Crimes Unit found through interviews and surveillance footage that Lorincz initiated the conflict after she grew increasingly angry at Owens children, who were playing in a field nearby.
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So glad they arrested and charged her. Was afraid she would get away with it. Beautiful young woman. What a shame. DeSantis better keep his hands off this and not demand the woman not be charged.
tblue37
(64,982 posts)brush
(53,475 posts)She should've been arrested that day when the cops arrived and found the victim shot, and who died shortly after they got there.
The stand-your-ground laws have to be re-visited as they give the trigger-happy racists license to kill.
Aristus
(66,096 posts)Power-crazed monsters
brush
(53,475 posts)louslobbs
(3,224 posts)who did the exact same thing as this white woman? Would the police have waited until they conducted an investigation, giving the black woman the same courtesy?
LetMyPeopleVote
(144,005 posts)IzzaNuDay
(357 posts)I cant wrap this around my head. Why do these fools think that it is appropriate to use guns to solve domestic problems? To me its unjustifiable. Either woman could have called law enforcement.
Amerikkka has bastardized the intent of the 2nd amendment.
Yeah, there is a racist component in this. white woman feels victimized so she kills the scary black woman.
I will not be surprised if this woman walks not guilty, just like George Zimmerman.
Fla Dem
(23,353 posts)Evidently nothing that was done proved to be effective in addressing the gun toting neighbor's behavior.