


A Florida woman who fatally shot a mother of four after a long running dispute involving her children will not face murder charges, officials said Monday.
Susan Lorincz, 58, was instead hit with manslaughter and assault raps for killing Ajike Owens earlier this month in Ocala after feuding with her and her family for two years.
Owens’ attorneys — along with lawyer Ben Crump — had demanded the charges be upgraded to murder, highlighting how witnesses heard Lorincz hurling racial slurs at Owens’ children before the shooting.
But State Attorney William Gladson opted against the stiffer charge, arguing in a statement the killing did not qualify for the “depraved mind” element of a second-degree murder rap.
“Depraved mind requires evidence of hatred, spite, ill will, or evil intent toward the victim at the time of the killing,” he said. “As deplorable as the defendant’s actions were in this case, there is insufficient evidence to prove this specific and required element of second-degree murder.”

Owens came to Lorincz’s door with her 9-year-old son after she allegedly cursed at her kids for playing near her house. She is said to have snatched one of their iPads and threw a roller skate at the group, according to cops.
After a verbal exchange with the locked door still closed, Lorincz shot, striking Owens once in the chest and killing her.
Asserting that Owens was beating down her door, Lorincz claims she was afraid for her life and pulled the trigger in self-defense.

Witnesses later told investigators Lorincz had called one of Owens’ children a “black slave” prior to the bloodshed.
Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said she did not have grounds to shoot Owens.
“If she gets any attorneys, I don’t care what that attorney says, I don’t care what that attorney presents to the court, for me and my detectives, this was an unjustified shooting, clear,” he said after probing the case for several days.
Crump ripped investigators for a delay in Lorincz’s arrest earlier this month, and later called on the state attorney to “zealously prosecute” the case.

“What does it say when a person can shoot and kill an unarmed mother in the presence of her young children, and not be immediately taken into custody, questioned, and charged?” he said in a statement.
Owens’ mother, Pamela Dias, said the the 9-year-old who witnessed the slaying blames himself.
“In his soul and his heart, it’s his fault that his older brother, his baby sister, and his baby brother, as well as himself, will never see their mother again, because he went home and told his mother what this woman did to him,” Dias explained.
If convicted at trial, Lorincz could face up to 30 years in prison on the manslaughter charges.