OCALA, Fla. (Court TV) — A Florida woman convicted of shooting and killing her neighbor is now threatening to file a lawsuit against the victim’s children.
The jury reaches a verdict in the trial of Susan Lorincz, charged with manslaughter and assault in the June 2023 shooting death of Ajike Owens. (Court TV)
A jury found Susan Lorincz guilty of manslaughter after she shot Ajike Owens through her locked front door, killing her in June 2023. Lorincz was sentenced to 25 years in prison and has maintained that she was the victim of harassment from Owens and Owens’ children. The neighborhood drama was showcased in the Netflix documentary, “The Perfect Neighbor.”
Owens’ mother, Pamela Dias, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against both Lorincz and the owner of the quadplex where she lived. The suit says that Charles Gabbard, who owned the property, should have known that Lorincz had “a propensity for gross negligence and/or intentional harm.”…