Susan Lorincz insisted that Ajike Owens threatened to kill her—but she made some shocking concessions in an interview with police, according to an arrest affidavit.
for fatally shooting Owens, 35, through a locked front door on Friday after Owens went round to Lorincz’ house to confront her for harassing Owens’ kids.
—were always playing in a common area outside her apartment. Lorincz claimed that when she told the children they were trespassing in the past, they said they would kill her.On Friday night, Lorincz again complained about Owens’ kids playing in the grass area near her apartment in Ocala. She took an iPad belonging to the kids, then threw a set of skates at one and swung an umbrella at another when they tried to retrieve it, authorities said.
However, police said they spoke to neighbors who said they never heard Owens make any threats about killing anyone. “[Lorincz] advised that she was just fearful of her life and was thinking ‘Go away, get out of this situation, just go away already,’” according to the affidavit from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. She claimed she felt she was in “mortal danger.”
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