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White woman who fatally shot Black neighbor through front door arrested on manslaughter and other charges

June 7, 2023 / 3:11 AM / CBS/AP

Ocala, Fla. A White woman who fired through her front and killed a Black neighbor was arrested Tuesday, authorities said, in a case that's put
Florida's divisive "stand your ground law" back in the spotlight. The
shooting sparked widespread anger and protests.

The Marion County Sheriff's Office said Susan Lorincz, 58, was charged
with manslaughter with a firearm and other offenses.

Ajike Owens, a 35-year-old mother of four, was killed Friday night in a shooting Sheriff Billy Woods said was the culmination of a 2-and-a-half-
year feud between the neighbors.

They lived in the rolling hills south of Ocala, a north Florida city
that's the heart of the state's horse country.

According to the sheriff's office, evidence showed that, over time,
Lorincz had become angry over Owens' children playing in a field close to
her apartment.


On Friday night, the office said, Lorincz got into an argument with the children and "was overhead yelling at them by a neighbor."

During the argument, the office continued, Lorincz threw a roller skate at Owens' 10-year-old son and hit him in a toe. The boy and his 12-year-old brother then went to speak to Lorincz, and she opened her door and swung
at them with an umbrella. They told their mother what happened and "Owens approached Lorincz's home, knocked on the door multiple times, and
demanded that Lorincz come outside. Lorincz then fired one shot through
the door, striking Owens in her upper chest.

"At the time she was shot, Owens' 10-year-old son was standing beside
her," the sheriff's office noted.

Deputies responding to a trespassing call at the apartment Friday night
found Owens suffering from gunshot wounds. She later died at a hospital.

When questioned by the sheriff's office, Lorincz claimed she acted in self-defense and that Owens was trying to break down her door. "Lorincz
also claimed that Owens had come after her in the past and had previously attacked her," the office continued.

But "detectives were able to establish that Lorincz's actions were not justifiable under Florida law" and she was arrested, the office said. susan-lorincz.jpg
Susan Lorincz in mugshot after her arrest on June 6, 2023 Marion County (Florida) Sheriff's Office

The manslaughter charge Lorincz is facing is punishable by up to 30 years
in prison, the office noted. She's also charged with culpable negligence, battery, and two counts of assault.

Billy Woods said in a statement that he wants "to thank Ms. Owens' family
for their patience as we conducted the diligent investigation that we were bound by law to conduct. Ms. Lorincz's fate is now in the hands of the
judicial system which I trust will deliver justice in due course. 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."
Pressure was mounting

Owens' family members called for the arrest at a news conference Monday.

And at a vigil Monday, Owens' mother, Pamela Dias, said she was seeking
justice for her daughter and her grandchildren.

"My daughter, my grandchildren's mother, was shot and killed with her ...
son standing next to her," Dias said. "She had no weapon. She posed no
imminent threat to anyone."

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who's representing Owens' family, said in
a statement that the shooter had been yelling racial slurs at the children before the confrontation.

He also represented Trayvon Martin's family in 2012, when the Black
teenager was killed in a case that drew worldwide attention to the state's stand your ground law.

The sheriff's office hasn't confirmed there were slurs uttered or said
whether race was a factor in the shooting.

About three dozen mostly Black protesters had gathered outside the Marion County Judicial Center Tuesday to demand that the shooter be arrested in
the country's latest flashpoint over race and gun violence. The chief prosecutor, State Attorney William Gladson, met with the protesters and
urged patience while the investigation continued.

Woods said Monday detectives were working with the State Attorney's Office
and had to investigate possible self-defense claims before they could move forward with any possible criminal charges. The sheriff pointed out that because of the stand your ground law, he couldn't make an arrest unless he could prove the shooter didn't act in self-defense.

On Tuesday, a stuffed teddy bear and bouquets marked the area near where
Owens was shot. Nearby, children were riding bikes and scooters, and
playing basketball. Protesters chanted "No justice, no peace" and "A.J.
A.J. A.J," using Owens' nickname. They carried signs saying: "Say her name Ajike Owens" and "It's about us."

Outside, the Rev. Bernard Tuggerson said the Black community in Ocala has suffered injustices for years. "Marion County is suffering and needs to be healed completely," he said. "If we don't turn from our wicked ways of the world, it's going to be an ongoing problem. We want answers."

Lauren Smith, 40, lives across the street from where the shooting
happened. She was on her porch that day and saw one of Owens' young sons pacing, and yelling, "They shot my mama, they shot my mama."

She ran toward the house, and started chest compressions until a rescue
crew arrived. She said there wasn't an altercation and that Owens didn't
have a weapon.

"She was angry all the time that the children were playing out there,"
Smith said. "She would say nasty things to them. Just nasty." Smith, who
is White, described the neighborhood as family friendly.

The sheriff said that since January 2021, deputies responded at least a half-dozen calls in connection with what police described as feuding
between Owens and the woman who shot her.

"There was a lot of aggressiveness from both of them, back and forth," the sheriff said the shooter told investigators. "Whether it be banging on the doors, banging on the walls and threats being made. And then at that
moment is when Ms. Owens was shot through the door."
"Stand your ground" laws in focus

"I'm absolutely heartbroken," Angela Ferrell-Zabala, executive director of
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, told The Associated Press.
She described the fatal shooting as "so senseless."

"We've seen this again and again across this country," she said, adding
that "it's really because of lax gun laws and a culture of shoot first."

Ferrell-Zabala said stand your ground cases, which she refers to as "shoot first laws," are deemed justifiable five times more frequently when a
White shooter kills a Black victim.

In 2017, Florida lawmakers updated the state's self-defense statute to
shift the burden of proof from a person claiming self-defense to
prosecutors. That means authorities have to rule out self-defense before bringing charges. Before the change in law, prosecutors could charge
someone with a shooting and then defense attorneys would have to present
an affirmative defense for why their client shouldn't be convicted.

In fact, stand your ground and "castle doctrine" cases - which allow
residents to defend themselves either by law or court precedent when
threatened - have sparked outrage amid a spate of shootings across the
country.

In April, 84-year-old Andrew Lester, a White man, shot and injured 16-
year-old Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager who rang his doorbell in Kansas City after mistakenly showing up at the wrong house to pick up his younger
siblings. Lester faces charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal action; at trial, he may argue that he thought someone was trying to break
into his house, as he told police.

Missouri and Florida are among about 30 states that have stand your ground laws.

The most well-known examples of the stand your ground argument came up in
the trial of George Zimmerman, who fatally shot Trayvon Martin.

Zimmerman, who had a White father and Hispanic mother, told police that
Martin attacked him, forcing him to use his gun in self-defense. He was
allowed to go free, but was arrested about six weeks later after Martin's parents questioned his version of events and then-Gov. Rick Scott
appointed a special prosecutor.

Before trial, Zimmerman's attorneys chose not to pursue a stand your
ground claim, which could have resulted in the dismissal of murder changes
as well as immunity from prosecution. But during the trial, the law was essentially used as part of his self-defense argument. Jurors found him
not guilty.

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In article <unkubt$27j6q$5@dont-email.me>
<governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:

One down, 42,999,999 to go.

Two white Atlanta police officers will not face charges after
one shot and killed 27-year-old black man Rayshard Brooks during
an attempted arrest two years ago, the prosecutor assigned to
the case announced Tuesday.

Officer Garrett Rolfe, who fatally shot Brooks in June 2020, and
his partner Officer Devin Brosnan acted reasonably when they
used deadly force, specially appointed prosecutor Pete
Skandalakis said.

“We did not look at this with 20/20 hindsight,” said
Skandalakis, the executive director of the Prosecuting
Attorneys’ Council of Georgia. “Given the quickly changing
circumstances, was it objectively reasonable that [Rolfe] used
deadly force? And we conclude it was.”

Brooks began fighting with the officers when they attempted to
arrest him and grabbed one of their tasers, which he fired at
Rolfe as he ran away. Rolfe then fired his gun and shot Brooks
twice in the back, according to dash cam footage and an autopsy
report.

The police shooting happened on June 12, 2020 less than three
weeks after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police
officer and at the height of national unrest over issues of
police brutality and systemic racism. Protests in Atlanta over
Floyd’s death had begun to subside, but Brook’s killing invoked
another wave of demonstrations.

In hindsight, Skandalakis said he does not believe Brook’s race
played a role in his death.

“This isn’t one of those cases,” he said. “This is a case in
which the officers were willing to give Mr. Brooks every benefit
of the doubt and, you know, unfortunately, by his actions, this
is what happened.”

The two officers had a calm 40-minute conversation with Brooks
before the encounter turned violent. They had been called to a
Wendy’s over complaints that a man was sleeping in a car in the
drive-thru lane at the chain restaurant and encountered Brooks.

After conversing for nearly an hour, the officers moved to
arrest Brooks, saying he had too much to drink to be driving a
car. Brooks resisted and a struggle between the three followed,
dash camera video shows.

During the tussle, Brooks was able to grab hold of Brosnan’s
taser. He fired it at Rolfe and ran away. Rolfe returned fire
with his gun and fatally shot Brooks.

Skandalakis called the interaction “a peaceful encounter that
all of a sudden becomes a violent encounter,” saying that once
Brooks grabbed the taser, he assumed an offensive position.

Brooks’ death led Rolfe to be fired the following day — though
his termination was overturned in May 2021.

His death also sent instant shock waves through Atlanta, causing
Police Chief Erika Shields to resign less than 24 hours later
and protestors to set fire to the Wendy’s.

Five days later, then-Fulton County District Attorney Paul
Howard put out warrants against Rolfe and his partner Rosnan.
Rolfe’s charges included felony murder.

Critics of the officer’s actions said they shot Brooks as he
retreated and was running in the opposite direction.

A lawyer for Brook’s family said Tuesday that he shouldn’t have
fought against the officers and that they would have been
completely justified in their use of deadly force if they had in
fact used said force during the tussle.

“But they did not. They did not. They chose not to when they
were justified. But they decided to use lethal force as a man
was running away — 19 feet away,” L. Chris Stewart said.

He said a jury should have made the decision on whether to
indict the officers rather than the prosecutor, citing the
complexity of the situation.

The family meanwhile is seeking justice in civil court, where
they have a lawsuit pending.

Lawyers for Rolfe and Brosnan said their clients’ actions that
day were justified and praised Skandalaki’s decision against
pursuing charges.

“More than two years after the incident that resulted in
Rayshard Brooks’s death, the State of Georgia has finally
arrived at the right decision: that Officer Brosnan’s arrest was
never supported by any evidence,” Brosnan attorney Amanda Clark
Palmer said in a statement.

She said that Brosnan suffered a concussion as a result of the
altercation with Brooks, who assaulted and tased him.

“Despite his own injuries, he called for and personally rendered
aid to Mr. Brooks after the shooting,” Palmer added.

Skandalakis said Tuesday that he will file paperwork to dismiss
the initial warrants filed by Howard against the two men.

Two months after he announced the charges in a dramatic news
conference, Howard lost his bid for reelection. Fani Willis beat
him in the Democratic primary and took office in January 2021.

Willis asked Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr to reassign the
case, citing concerns about Howard’s actions, just a few weeks
into her term.

After initial opposition, Carr appointed Skandalakis to take
over the case from Willis’ office in July 2021.

With Post wires

https://nypost.com/2022/08/24/atlanta-cops-garrett-rolfe-devin- brosnan-wont-face-charges-in-rayshard-brooks-shooting/

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On 1/9/24 20:11, tRUMP wrote:

White woman who fatally shot Black neighbor through front door arrested on manslaughter and other charges

As was proper.

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"tRUMP" <elonx@protonmail.com> wrote in message news:unkubt$27j6q$5@dont-email.me...

White woman who fatally shot Black neighbor through front door arrested on manslaughter and other charges

"They told their mother what happened and "Owens
approached Lorincz's home, knocked on the door multiple times, and
demanded that Lorincz come outside. Lorincz then fired one shot through
the door, striking Owens in her upper chest"

Well, she just did what the President of the United States said she should
do in such a case.

How can that be a crime? I mean it's Joe Biden, a Democrat, who we're told
is the smartest man to ever be President.

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On 1/10/2024 3:46 AM, David Hartung wrote:

On 1/9/24 20:11, tRUMP wrote:

White woman who fatally shot Black neighbor through front door arrested on >> manslaughter and other charges

As was proper.

You're only saying that because you're unhappy at being wrong about Lt. Michael Byrd (American hero) killing that insurrectionist skank.

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White woman who fatally shot Black neighbor through front door arrested on manslaughter and other charges

June 7, 2023 / 3:11 AM / CBS/AP

Ocala, Fla. A White woman who fired through her front and killed a Black neighbor was arrested Tuesday, authorities said, in a case that's put
Florida's divisive "stand your ground law" back in the spotlight. The
shooting sparked widespread anger and protests.

The Marion County Sheriff's Office said Susan Lorincz, 58, was charged
with manslaughter with a firearm and other offenses.

Ajike Owens, a 35-year-old mother of four, was killed Friday night in a shooting Sheriff Billy Woods said was the culmination of a 2-and-a-half-
year feud between the neighbors.

They lived in the rolling hills south of Ocala, a north Florida city
that's the heart of the state's horse country.

According to the sheriff's office, evidence showed that, over time,
Lorincz had become angry over Owens' children playing in a field close to
her apartment.


On Friday night, the office said, Lorincz got into an argument with the children and "was overhead yelling at them by a neighbor."

During the argument, the office continued, Lorincz threw a roller skate at Owens' 10-year-old son and hit him in a toe. The boy and his 12-year-old brother then went to speak to Lorincz, and she opened her door and swung
at them with an umbrella. They told their mother what happened and "Owens approached Lorincz's home, knocked on the door multiple times, and
demanded that Lorincz come outside. Lorincz then fired one shot through
the door, striking Owens in her upper chest.

"At the time she was shot, Owens' 10-year-old son was standing beside
her," the sheriff's office noted.

Deputies responding to a trespassing call at the apartment Friday night
found Owens suffering from gunshot wounds. She later died at a hospital.

When questioned by the sheriff's office, Lorincz claimed she acted in self-defense and that Owens was trying to break down her door. "Lorincz
also claimed that Owens had come after her in the past and had previously attacked her," the office continued.

But "detectives were able to establish that Lorincz's actions were not justifiable under Florida law" and she was arrested, the office said. susan-lorincz.jpg
Susan Lorincz in mugshot after her arrest on June 6, 2023 Marion County (Florida) Sheriff's Office

The manslaughter charge Lorincz is facing is punishable by up to 30 years
in prison, the office noted. She's also charged with culpable negligence, battery, and two counts of assault.

Billy Woods said in a statement that he wants "to thank Ms. Owens' family
for their patience as we conducted the diligent investigation that we were bound by law to conduct. Ms. Lorincz's fate is now in the hands of the
judicial system which I trust will deliver justice in due course. 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."
Pressure was mounting

Owens' family members called for the arrest at a news conference Monday.

And at a vigil Monday, Owens' mother, Pamela Dias, said she was seeking
justice for her daughter and her grandchildren.

"My daughter, my grandchildren's mother, was shot and killed with her ...
son standing next to her," Dias said. "She had no weapon. She posed no
imminent threat to anyone."

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who's representing Owens' family, said in
a statement that the shooter had been yelling racial slurs at the children before the confrontation.

He also represented Trayvon Martin's family in 2012, when the Black
teenager was killed in a case that drew worldwide attention to the state's stand your ground law.

The sheriff's office hasn't confirmed there were slurs uttered or said
whether race was a factor in the shooting.

About three dozen mostly Black protesters had gathered outside the Marion County Judicial Center Tuesday to demand that the shooter be arrested in
the country's latest flashpoint over race and gun violence. The chief prosecutor, State Attorney William Gladson, met with the protesters and
urged patience while the investigation continued.

Woods said Monday detectives were working with the State Attorney's Office
and had to investigate possible self-defense claims before they could move forward with any possible criminal charges. The sheriff pointed out that because of the stand your ground law, he couldn't make an arrest unless he could prove the shooter didn't act in self-defense.

On Tuesday, a stuffed teddy bear and bouquets marked the area near where
Owens was shot. Nearby, children were riding bikes and scooters, and
playing basketball. Protesters chanted "No justice, no peace" and "A.J.
A.J. A.J," using Owens' nickname. They carried signs saying: "Say her name Ajike Owens" and "It's about us."

Outside, the Rev. Bernard Tuggerson said the Black community in Ocala has suffered injustices for years. "Marion County is suffering and needs to be healed completely," he said. "If we don't turn from our wicked ways of the world, it's going to be an ongoing problem. We want answers."

Lauren Smith, 40, lives across the street from where the shooting
happened. She was on her porch that day and saw one of Owens' young sons pacing, and yelling, "They shot my mama, they shot my mama."

She ran toward the house, and started chest compressions until a rescue
crew arrived. She said there wasn't an altercation and that Owens didn't
have a weapon.

"She was angry all the time that the children were playing out there,"
Smith said. "She would say nasty things to them. Just nasty." Smith, who
is White, described the neighborhood as family friendly.

The sheriff said that since January 2021, deputies responded at least a half-dozen calls in connection with what police described as feuding
between Owens and the woman who shot her.

"There was a lot of aggressiveness from both of them, back and forth," the sheriff said the shooter told investigators. "Whether it be banging on the doors, banging on the walls and threats being made. And then at that
moment is when Ms. Owens was shot through the door."
"Stand your ground" laws in focus

"I'm absolutely heartbroken," Angela Ferrell-Zabala, executive director of
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, told The Associated Press.
She described the fatal shooting as "so senseless."

"We've seen this again and again across this country," she said, adding
that "it's really because of lax gun laws and a culture of shoot first."

Ferrell-Zabala said stand your ground cases, which she refers to as "shoot first laws," are deemed justifiable five times more frequently when a
White shooter kills a Black victim.

In 2017, Florida lawmakers updated the state's self-defense statute to
shift the burden of proof from a person claiming self-defense to
prosecutors. That means authorities have to rule out self-defense before bringing charges. Before the change in law, prosecutors could charge
someone with a shooting and then defense attorneys would have to present
an affirmative defense for why their client shouldn't be convicted.

In fact, stand your ground and "castle doctrine" cases - which allow
residents to defend themselves either by law or court precedent when
threatened - have sparked outrage amid a spate of shootings across the
country.

In April, 84-year-old Andrew Lester, a White man, shot and injured 16-
year-old Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager who rang his doorbell in Kansas City after mistakenly showing up at the wrong house to pick up his younger
siblings. Lester faces charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal action; at trial, he may argue that he thought someone was trying to break
into his house, as he told police.

Missouri and Florida are among about 30 states that have stand your ground laws.

The most well-known examples of the stand your ground argument came up in
the trial of George Zimmerman, who fatally shot Trayvon Martin.

Zimmerman, who had a White father and Hispanic mother, told police that
Martin attacked him, forcing him to use his gun in self-defense. He was
allowed to go free, but was arrested about six weeks later after Martin's parents questioned his version of events and then-Gov. Rick Scott
appointed a special prosecutor.

Before trial, Zimmerman's attorneys chose not to pursue a stand your
ground claim, which could have resulted in the dismissal of murder changes
as well as immunity from prosecution. But during the trial, the law was essentially used as part of his self-defense argument. Jurors found him
not guilty.

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