Woods was joined at his news conference by community leaders and a local attorney retained by the family, Anthony Thomas. The sheriff’s office hasn’t confirmed there were slurs uttered or said whether race was a factor in the shooting. Owens was shot through the door.”Ĭivil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who is representing Owens’ family, said in a statement that the shooter had been yelling racial slurs at the children before the confrontation with their mother. “Whether it be banging on the doors, banging on the walls and threats being made. “There was a lot of aggressiveness from both of them, back and forth,” Wood said the shooter told investigators. So most of the information the deputies have is coming from the shooter, Woods said. Woods said they haven’t interviewed Owens’ children, who witnessed the shooting, because investigators want child experts to work with the children.
When Owens later confronted the woman at her apartment, an argument ensued, and the woman shot Owens through the front door, investigators said. At some point, the woman yelled at the children and threw a pair of skates, which hit one of the children, Woods said.
The sheriff pointed out that because of Florida’s “stand your ground” law, he can’t legally make an arrest unless he can prove the shooter did not act in self-defense.īefore the shooting, Owens’ children had been playing in a field near the shooter’s apartment, officials said. Woods said detectives are working with the State Attorney’s Office, and they must investigate possible self-defense claims before they can move forward with any possible criminal charges.
The sheriff’s office hasn’t arrested or identified the shooter. Since January 2021, Woods said, deputies have responded at least a half-dozen times in connection with the feuding between Owens and the woman who eventually shot her. Owens would have called us in the hopes we could have never gotten to the point at which we are here today.” “I wish our shooter would have called us instead of taking actions into her own hands,” Woods said. Ocala is about 70 miles (110 kilometers) northwest of Orlando. The 35-year-old mother of four was taken to a nearby hospital, where she died. Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said at a news conference Monday that deputies responding to a trespassing call at an Ocala home on Friday night found Ajike Owens suffering from gunshot wounds.
(AP) - A Florida mother was fatally shot through a door outside a neighbor’s home after what officials characterized on Monday as a 2 1/2-year feud over playing children.
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