After requires her detainment, police in Florida have introduced the arrest of a white girl who allegedly shot and killed her Black neighbor earlier this month.
On-line jail information present 58-year-old Susan Louise Lorincz’s reserving date as June 7. Listed expenses embody manslaughter with a firearm, culpable negligence, battery, and assault within the capturing loss of life of Ajike Owens. Per the Marion County Sheriff’s Workplace, the manslaughter with a firearm rely is a felony that carries with it the potential of as much as 30 years behind bars if convicted as charged.
“My detectives have been working across the clock since this occurred, sifting by means of proof and interviewing witnesses,” Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods stated in a video assertion shared Tuesday night. “Now I stated this firstly: We wish the identical factor as Mrs. Owens’ household, and that’s justice. Now right here’s the factor about justice—she’s on her personal time.”
From there, Woods spoke on what he says was the rationale behind not making a right away arrest within the case. Doing so, he argued, might have damage the case in the long run. Moreover, Woods stated, investigators solely had “one aspect of the story’ when first starting their work.
“Mrs. Olsen’s story needed to be advised by means of proof within the eyes of witnesses who had been there,” he stated.
As for the state’s controversial Stand Your Floor legislation, Woods expressed help for it in a common sense when asserting the arrest. Nonetheless, he famous, it doesn’t apply on this capturing.
“This case is a major instance of when it was not justified,” Woods stated. “It was merely a killing.”
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In response to police, Lorincz had “turn out to be offended” on the sufferer’s kids for enjoying exterior close to her dwelling. On the date of the deadly capturing, Lorincz is alleged to have gotten into an argument with the youngsters throughout which she “threw a curler skate” at one of many kids, recognized as Owens’ 10-year-old son. Lorincz later swung on the 10-year-old son and his 12-year-old brother with an umbrella, police stated. Attorneys Ben Crump and Anthony D. Thomas, who’re representing Owens’ household, additional alleged that the girl additionally referred to as the youngsters racial slurs.
Later that day, when Owens went to Lorincz’s dwelling, she was allegedly shot by means of the door by Lorincz. On the time of the capturing, Owens was standing subsequent to her 10-year-old son. Whereas Lorincz initially argued she had shot Owens in self-defense, the following investigation discovered that the girl’s “actions weren’t justifiable.”
Previous to the announcement of Lorincz’s arrest, the household had publicly referred to as for the girl to be held accountable for her actions. “My daughter, my grandchildren’s mom, was shot and killed ,” Owens’ mom, Pamela Dias, stated in a latest press convention.
In a press release shared with Advanced on Tuesday evening, Crump and Thomas pointed to Florida’s Stand Your Floor legislation as nonetheless being in want of eradication.
“Whereas we’re relieved that the girl apparently chargeable for the tragic killing of Ajike ‘AJ’ Owens has been arrested, we aren’t any much less involved that accountability has taken this lengthy as a result of archaic legal guidelines like Stand Your Floor exist,” the attorneys stated in an electronic mail. “What does it say when an individual can shoot and kill an unarmed mom within the presence of her younger kids, and never be instantly taken into custody, questioned, and charged?”