US woman jailed for fatally shooting neighbour through door
A Florida woman who fatally shot her neighbour through her front door last year has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Susan Lorincz, 60, opened fire on 35-year-old Ajike "AJ" Owens as she knocked on Lorincz's locked door during a dispute about the victim's children playing outside in the city of Ocala.
According to Owens's family and an affidavit, Lorincz, who is white, had shouted racial epithets at the children of Owens, who was black, before the shooting on 2 June 2023.
A jury convicted Lorincz in August of one count of manslaughter with a firearm and one count of assault. The trial tested Florida's Stand Your Ground law, which permits use of deadly force in self-defence.
The fatal shooting followed a series of quarrels between Lorincz and Owens that resulted ...