(16 Aug 2024)
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Ocala, Florida — 16 August 2024
1. Tight of Susan Lorincz in court
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rich Buxman, prosecutor:
"It’s not a crime to bang on somebody’s door. It’s not a crime to yell. There is no evidence that she came over there with any other intent but to get the defendant to come out and talk."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rich Buxman, prosecutor:
"But she’s banging. ‘Come out.’ Pause and wait. Bang again. And then the gunshot happens."
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ARCHIVE: Ocala, Florida — 6 June 2023
5. STILL photo of a protester holding a poster of Ajike Owens at the Marion County Courthouse, Photo ID: 23157738978159
6. Susan Lorincz in court
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Amanda Sizemore, defense attorney:
"She had a right to stand her ground and defend herself because she was reasonably afraid."
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Amanda Sizemore, defense attorney:
"You can use deadly force to prevent someone from coming into your home and hurting you, or attacking you. Because, members of the jury, if someone who is on the outside of your door that is banging and pounding so hard, wants to get in that house, and they do? It is too late."
STORYLINE:
A Florida jury has begun deliberations in the manslaughter trial of a white woman accused of manslaughter in the shooting death of a Black neighbor amid an ongoing feud over the neighbor’s children.
Susan Lorincz, 60, faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted in the June 2023 killing of 35-year-old Ajike “A.J.” Owens, a mother of four, in Ocala, Florida.
Lorincz claimed she fired her .380-caliber handgun through her front door in self-defense because Owens was pounding on the door and yelling at her. Jurors got the case Friday after closing arguments from attorneys.
Prosecutor Rich Buxman said in a closing argument there was no evidence that Owens posed an imminent physical threat to Lorincz but came to the defendant’s house after her children complained Lorincz had allegedly thrown roller skates and an umbrella at them amid a long-running annoyance at their boisterous play outside.
A lawyer for Lorincz countered that she was frightened by Owens’ aggressive actions and was legally justified in firing her gun under Florida’s “stand your ground” law. An autopsy found Owens weighed about 290 pounds ((130 kilograms), making her much larger as well as younger than Lorincz, and the two had previous ominous confrontations.
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