A white Florida woman was convicted Friday of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a Black neighbor after the jury rejected her claims that she fired through a metal door in self-defense amid an ongoing dispute over children playing outside her home.
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Lorincz told detectives in a videotaped interview that she feared for her life as Owens yelled and pounded on her door.Lorincz also said she had been harassed for most of the three years she lived in the neighborhood. Anthony Thomas, an attorney for the Owens family, said they would push for the maximum 30-year prison term. Owens' mother, Pamela Dias, said she took some solace from the guilty verdict.
"The defendant's choices have left four young children without their mother, a loss that will be felt for the rest of their lives," Gladson said in a statement."While today's verdict can't bring A.J. back, we hope it brings some measure of justice and peace to her family and friends." A lawyer for Lorincz countered that she was frightened by Owens' aggressive actions and was legally justified in firing her gun under Florida's"stand your ground" law. An autopsy found Owens weighed about 290 pounds , making her much larger as well as younger than Lorincz, and the two had previous confrontations.
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