Owens approached Lorincz’s apartment after the neighbor allegedly yelled racial slurs at Owens’ kids and hit one of them with a roller skate.
Owens’ mother, Pamela Dias, told reporters Wednesday that the children are devastated over their mother’s death and believe they are the ones at fault after they told her about what Lorincz had allegedly done to them.
Two of Ajike “AJ” Owens’ sons blame themselves for her death after she was shot and killed by a neighbor.“He told me ‘I couldn’t save her. I tried to give her CPR,'” Dias said of the conversation with her sobbing grandson. “One of the reasons I am so relieved that Sheriff [Billy] Woods made that arrest last night is that it tells Pamela’s children it was not their fault,” Crump said Wednesday.
Crump, who represented Travon Martin’s family in the landmark fatal stand-your-ground case, said Lorincz had yelled racial slurs at Owens’ children, leading to friction between them.
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