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Mother of 4 fatally shot through door after ‘feud’ with neighbor in Fla.: police

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Ocala, Fla. after a mother of four was shot and killed on Friday during a dispute with her neighbour.Ajike (AJ) Owens, who is Black, was shot through the closed front door of her neighbour’s home around 9 p.m.

local time. She visited the neighbour, an unidentified 58-year-old white woman, to allegedly confront her about “harming her children,” according to a police report obtained by the Washington Post.One of Owens’ children, a nine-year-old boy, was allegedly standing beside his mother when she was shot.

Owens, 35, later died from her injuries.A high-profile civil rights lawyer representing the Owens family, Ben Crump, tweeted about the case on Monday and called Owens’ death an “unjust killing.”“This is Ajike ‘AJ’ Owens — a mother of 4 fatally shot after she reportedly knocked on the door of a white woman’s residence to retrieve her child’s iPad,” he wrote. “It’s believed that Owens’ children accidentally left the device behind in a field they were playing in, & the woman took it.”The unidentified woman, who allegedly shot our client through the door, HASN’T been arrested or charged with anything by law enforcement for the unjust killing.— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) June 5, 2023In a separate statement from Crump’s law firm, he claimed Owens’ four children had been playing in a field next to an Ocala apartment complex before the incident.He alleged the woman began “yelling” at the children to get off the lawn while “calling them racial slurs.”As the children left the field, they forgot their iPad, which Crump said the woman took.

When one child went to retrieve it, the woman allegedly threw the device at the minor. Crump said it hit the boy and cracked the iPad’s screen.MEDIA ALERT: @AttorneyCrump, attorney Anthony D..

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