FL - Ajike "AJ" Owens, 35, fatally shot by neighbor, Marion County, June 2023 *arrest*

[Boxer]

I didn't follow this trial when it happened, but I found this thread due to just watching the documentary.

I am so glad to learn that she was guilty and sentenced to 25 years. My goodness the evilness that just radiated off that woman in all those police videos from her calling 911 on the children. Sad that she chose to live in an area with so many kids if she just didn't like kids. I can't think of any reason to live in a family neighborhood if you just aren't into seeing families outside playing and enjoying life.

I pray Ajike Owen's children are doing well.

Exactly. The normal act of calling their Mom over to deal with the horrible neighbor lady and then have Mom be shot to death by horrible lady. I feel very sorry for them.

 

[worm]

This documentary grabbed me from the first minute and I followed from day 1.

 

[Zwttrn]

Just watched the documentary. Very well made.
The kids’ reactions was one of the most devastating things I’ve ever seen. Specially after seeing them happily playing in the previous “incidents”.

What a hateful woman. The part of the interrogation where she admits to using a slur and even tries to justify it, saying she learned it should be used in some specific cases (which I refuse to even type) was disgusting.

 

[worm]

Just watched the documentary. Very well made.
The kids’ reactions was one of the most devastating things I’ve ever seen. Specially after seeing them happily playing in the previous “incidents”.

What a hateful woman. The part of the interrogation where she admits to using a slur and even tries to justify it, saying she learned it should be used in some specific cases (which I refuse to even type) was disgusting.

Every single police officer who dealt with this as it went from the start was 1000% professional and her 911 call when she goes from scared victim under threat to raging about the neighbors all in a 2 minute span. This is so awful.

 

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Well, I'll add that 1 officer, the sheriff, was pretty sorry with his harping on getting mad if someone threw something at his kid, complete with expletives to sound tough as well as his informing that family of the arrest by a group phone call. Those parts made me cringe.

 

[justtrish]

After watching the documentary yesterday, I just keep thinking about this case. This woman just seems miserable to start with. She is the person who is instigating ALL of the issues. That community seems so nice and friendly. The kids all playing and being outside just doing what kids do. They aren't cursing and carrying on, they don't even try to mess with her from all the 911 calls and body cams shown. Not once was there an actual issue with the kids doing something to her or her property. She parked her truck near where they play and then pushed the alarm button and would say the kids set it off. Her lie about the kids leaving their toys near her house and she almost died by tripping over something??

The kicker was when she couldn't call 911 before shooting because she couldn't find her phone, but she had hung up with 911 just 2 minutes before she shot through the door.

So flipping tragic and unnecessary.

 

[worm]

After watching the documentary yesterday, I just keep thinking about this case. This woman just seems miserable to start with. She is the person who is instigating ALL of the issues. That community seems so nice and friendly. The kids all playing and being outside just doing what kids do. They aren't cursing and carrying on, they don't even try to mess with her from all the 911 calls and body cams shown. Not once was there an actual issue with the kids doing something to her or her property. She parked her truck near where they play and then pushed the alarm button and would say the kids set it off. Her lie about the kids leaving their toys near her house and she almost died by tripping over something??

The kicker was when she couldn't call 911 before shooting because she couldn't find her phone, but she had hung up with 911 just 2 minutes before she shot through the door.

So flipping tragic and unnecessary.

The officer who tells the other “sometimes you have to accept that there’s a lot of kids in the neighborhood” had a good handle on what was going on. You are correct about the lady already being miserable as she was so easy to set off. From 98 till 2004 my front yard was a local kids park and it never once bugged me.

 

[justtrish]

The officer who tells the other “sometimes you have to accept that there’s a lot of kids in the neighborhood” had a good handle on what was going on. You are correct about the lady already being miserable as she was so easy to set off. From 98 till 2004 my front yard was a local kids park and it never once bugged me.

We had several older people living in my neighborhood growing up and they didn't have kids who were playing outside, but they would often sit outside or be walking their dogs and so on and they became more like a grandparent figure to all us kids. We loved seeing them and never bothered them (maybe we were annoying sometimes, but they always embraced us and waved and so on).. I think if this lady would have approached those kids with love and kindness that very well could have been what happened for her as well. Kids are so full of love, and they generally don't want to upset adults (for legit reasons not for the fabricated ones this lady made up). Instead, she picked fights, created issues to call the police and then ended the life of a good mom all over her inability to accept that children can play outside and make a little noise.