Susan Lorincz, 60, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the shooting death of 35-year-old Ajike „A.J.“ Owens after she fatally shot the mother of four through her front door on June 2, 2023 in Ocala, Fla.
The white Florida woman who gunned down her black neighbor, a mother of four young kids, over a long-running dispute about the children playing outside her home was sentenced to 25 years in prison Monday.
Susan Lorincz, 60, claimed she was acting in self-defense when she shot and killed 35-year-old Ajike “A.J.” Owens, but the judge — and the all-white jury in Ocala, Fla., who found her guilty — didn’t buy her excuse.
“The shooting was completely unnecessary in this case,” Circuit Judge Robert Hodges said during an afternoon hearing. “The shooting, I find, was based more in anger than in fear.”
Lorincz was convicted of manslaughter in August for the shooting death of Owens, after she fatally shot the single mother through her front door on June 2, 2023.
The two had argued for years over Owens’ kids playing in a grassy area near both of their homes.
