It's happened again. Ajike Owens was shot through the closed locked door when she went to ask about an ipad that her neighbor, a 58 year-old white woman named Susan, refused to return.
Susan has not be arrested or charged as the police wonder if "stand your ground" applies.
The local sherif described the neighbors as "in a feud." Ajike's family were taken aback by this and they are very frustrated and hurt.
When Ajike was shot her son was standing right beside her.
https://news.yahoo.com/white-florida-woman-shot-killed-151000389.html
When did Susan buy the gun? Was it recent? who sold it to her? what if any training did she have?
I think we should hunt down and collate this information for all of these civilian “perceived trespassing” shootings. I suspect we will find:
*newer less experienced gun owners
*gun bought because of fears about “crime” but not *due to any crime happening to these killers
minimal or non existent training
@futurebird , I highly doubt Susan will walk free with this one. There is no way in hell to believe she thought her life was in danger on the other side of a locked door. Unless the neighbor was trying to break down the door, Susan committed murder.
@futurebird , I agree, with everything you said. But seeing her lose her house, her job, her freedoms may be a good example to other nut cases. She wasn't going anyplace, so the cops could take their time with her. But knowing they wouldn't have been so patient if that 58 year old white Karen had been the one shot by the black woman in the same way... It is disheartening.
Not just disheartening, it’s enabling these events to keep happening because the police acting like this old lady didn’t screw up big time— playing up the notion there was some kind of “feud” dragging their feet sends a message. She might not get away with it — this victim was a little too innocent. But if there were some “criminal records” to wave around. If it were a younger person killed without kids, if drugs were involved… all these would provide cover for the murder.
@futurebird , i fully expect that the victim here will have her long history of parking violations made public to smear her. That is inevitable. And intensely sad.
@futurebird , I am so exhausted with being angry. Disheartened is about my limit anymore.
Ajike Owens has a supportive family, a social safety net. Well-spoken and ready to act people who will defend and support justice for her.
There are cases that don’t get the same headlines where the victim is homeless, or has been arrested… ever, and these victims often get no justice.
And the police reaction here is just affirming that.
@futurebird < see she was arrested finally. Her life is now over, for the life she took.
@JonKramer
At minimum there will be a successful civil suit. But watching the police be so complicit in protecting her is disgusting and disheartening. They know their role so well— and this is systemic since laws encourage them to act this way.
And nothing will ever change the fact that a little boy had to watch his mother die. She is gone forever over nothing.