A Florida woman who fatally shot her Black neighbor through her front door will walk free because of the state’s “stand your ground” law—at least for now.
The unnamed shooter killed her neighbor, Ajike Owens, a 35-year-old mother of four, as Owens stood in front of the shooter’s door with her 9-year-old son beside her. Owens was reportedly confronting the neighbor over a dispute that began with Owens’ children playing in a nearby field.
Woods said that deputies responded to a trespassing call when they found Owens had been shot. She later died of her wounds at the hospital. “She’ll come out and just yell at [Owens’ children], call them names, call the police. All of us have talked to the police about her attitude toward the children,” Remy said.
“Any time that we think or perceive or believe that that might come into play, we cannot make an arrest,” Woods said. “Sometimes it becomes an obstacle, but only a temporary obstacle, because it will be moved, and the final answer will come forward.”
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