Susan Lorincz shot her unarmed neighbor through a locked door, hours after calling the woman's kids racial slurs. Police say there's 'insufficient evidence.'
legally permit citizens to defend themselves with deadly force if they fear they’re in imminent danger. But on June 2, Lorincz shot Owens while she was unarmed and in the presence of her young children, with a locked door separating the two.to lawyers for Owens’ family, the conflict that led to Owens’ death began when her kids were playing in a field near their apartment complex.
Lorincz “began yelling at [the kids] to get off her land and calling them racial slurs.” The children fled the field and accidentally left behind an iPad, which Lorincz collected. When Owens’ kids went to Lorincz’s home to retrieve it, Owens’ family lawyers say that Lorincz threw it, hitting one of the children. Owens then came to Lorincz’s home to confront her. Lorincz then shot and killed Owens through the door.
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