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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.

  • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
    252·
    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.