Self-described perfect neighbor, Susan Lorincz, was always the victim in her mind.
When she got caught trespassing on a man's private property and rammed his gate with her truck to get out, she blamed her reaction on PTSD she suffered from previous crimes allegedly done to her.
When neighborhood children played in the vacant lot next to her Ocala, Florida home, she complained they were trespassing, loud, and tormenting her on purpose.
She repeatedly called police on them for months, not long after moving into the previously family-friendly neighborhood.
When Lorincz parked her truck in front of the lot where she knew the kids would be, she set off the vehicle's alarm and blamed them for it.
When she threw a roller skate at a 10-year-old boy, hitting him in the toe, and swung an umbrella at him and other children, she claimed she had fallen over the skate and was returning it, but one of the boys threatened to kill her when she asked him to pick it up.
And when the boy's mother, Ajike "AJ" Owens, walked over to Lorincz's house and knocked on her door to confront Susan about her treatment of AJ's children, Lorincz shot through her locked, steel door.
She shot the mother once in the chest, killing her, and then blamed AJ for it, saying she feared for her life from the unarmed woman.
Turns out Susan Lorincz had been researching Florida’s Stand Your Ground law not long before the deadly confrontation.
She had called the police on her neighbors so much in the months leading up to the shooting that there was enough body cam footage from deputies responding to her incessant complaints to make a documentary about Lorincz called, “The Perfect Neighbor.”
That’s how Susan Lorincz saw herself, but fortunately a jury did not agree with her.
Join us for more on the case in the latest episode of the Gulf Coast Confidential podcast, “Perfect Neighbor Susan Lorincz, the uncaring Karen.”
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