The county sheriff's office is determining whether the 58-year-old white woman who shot Ajike Owens in front of her kids abided by Stand Your Ground laws.
permit citizens to defend themselves with deadly force if they fear they’re in imminent danger—but Owens was unarmed and in the presence of her young children, and her white neighbor was behind a locked door.on Monday that the conflict began when Owens’ young children were playing in a field near their apartment complex. Their 58-year-old neighbor allegedly“began yelling at them to get off her land and calling them racial slurs.
This confrontation between the kids and the 58-year-old woman prompted Owens to come to her neighbor’s home. “She knocked on the door, and at that point, the woman allegedly shot through the door, hitting AJ, who later died from her injuries,” Crump said.Woods on Monday declined to confirm or dispute this version of events at a press conference, telling reporters the case is still under investigation. Owens’ kids, he said, “are a big part of answering a lot [of] our questions.
Ben Crump Law did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Jezebel on the case. Anthony D. Thomas, another attorney working with the Owens family at Crump’s firm, on Monday called for Owens’ neighbor to be arrested and charged for Owens’ death at a . “Make no mistake about it. We do support our sheriff. But at the same time, we want him to do the job that he promised that he would do, and we want swift justice,” Thomas told reporters.The Marion County NAACP president, Bishop J. David Stockton III, also spoke in support of Owens’ family and criticized the culture of racist violence that precipitated Owens’ killing.
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