A woman who was charged with fatally shooting her neighbor through a door has a history of harassing neighborhood children and using racial slurs against them, NBC News reported.
Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, was arrested Tuesday on charges of manslaughter with a firearm, culpable negligence, battery, and two counts of assault. Police say Lorincz shot Ajike “AJ” Owens, 35, through a closed door on Friday night while Owens’ 10-year-old son was standing beside her. According to reports, the shooting was the culmination of a years-long feud between the two.
Neighbors speaking to NBC News say Lorincz recorded their children, taunted them with slurs, and even waved a gun at them for simply making noise as children do. One man said that hours before the shooting, Lorincz flashed her middle finger at him and his kids while they played in a field.
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“…she used to come outside all the time and harass our kids,” one resident told NBC News. “Everybody in this neighborhood has feuded with this lady over our children.”
“Our kids used to play in the field over there all the time. It’s an apartment complex. These are children who, you know, they’re, they’re going to do things. … Every time they’ve went even in the patch of grass over there, she would be like, ‘Get off of my lawn, you b—- or you retards or you N-word.’ She would wave guns at them,” said Phyllis Wills.
“She recorded them every time she’s came outside. She’s gotten into her truck and blasted the radio as loud as she could to agitate the kids,” Willis added. “She’s gotten into her truck and laid on the horn for long periods of time to agitate them, as well. She sped out in her truck out here, just crazy things.”
Sharna Mozell said Lorincz would bully children in the area and was known amongst neighbors as a “Karen.”
Police say that in the lead up to the shooting, Lorincz was angry because Owens’ children were playing in the nearby field and she was “engaged in an argument” with the children. Police add that Lorincz threw a skate at Owens’ 10-year-old son and later swung an umbrella at him and his sibling. Owens then knocked on Lorincz’s door multiple times, and Lorincz fired one shot through the door in response. Owens was hit in the upper chest and was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
