24 h. ago What sentence did Susan Lorincz get for killing Ajike Owens?

Netflix's The Perfect Neighbor documents the tragic death of Ajike 'AJ' Owens at the hands of her neighbour, Susan Lorincz.

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29 h. ago Ajike Owens' children now after they were 'inconsolable' following mum's harrowing death

Ajike "AJ" Owens was killed by her neighbour Susan Lorincz in June 2023.

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31 h. ago The Perfect Neighbor: Victim's mother shares 'tragic' reaction to Netflix documentary

The Perfect Neighbor has been released on Netflix and tells the story of Ajike 'AJ' Owens, who was shot and killed by her neighbour Susan Lorincz

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31 h. ago The Perfect Neighbor victim's mother shares 'heartbreaking' reaction to watching Netflix doc

Netflix subscribers have been devastated by the tragic real-life murder of Ajike ‘AJ’ Owens, depicted in the harrowing new documentary The Perfect Neighbor

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4 d. ago Where is Susan Lorincz now as death of Ajike Owens explored in new Netflix documentary

A major debate was ignited on the USA's stand-your-ground law over the incident

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7 d. ago The Perfect Neighbour: The Netflix documentary exposing the horrors of America’s deadliest law

In 2023, Ajike Owens was shot through her neighbour’s door and left to die in the street. Inexplicably, it took days for her killer to even be arrested. As Netflix unveils an Oscar-tipped film exploring Owens’s killing, Lydia Spencer-Elliott speaks to Owens’s mother Pam and documentarian Geeta Gandbhir about the absurdity of the Stand Your Ground law

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1 week ago The Perfect Neighbor review – a notorious shooting through the eye of a Florida cop’s body

Geeta Gandbhir’s study of the Ajike Owens killing turns police footage into a devastating lens on fear, race and a nation fatally addicted to firearmsThe true crime genre has a new medium, or maybe even a whole new language and grammar: police body cam footage. Faces of victims, witnesses and possible perpetrators loom up to the cameras, sometimes in the harsh glare of headlights or flashlights as the officers approach, their faces and voices eloquent of wariness or panic or indignation or suspiciously contrived innocence. And we often incidentally glimpse the faces of the officers themselves, one standing by blankly while the other asks the questions with what sometimes seems like extraordinary diffidence – though perhaps this is because they know they are being recorded.We have already had the Netflix true-crime documentary American Murder: Gabby Petito, about the slaying of an Instagram influencer by her boyfriend, whose main point of interest was body cam footage and in which, a...

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2 w. ago ‘The world needs to know what happened to my baby’: inside devastating new police

Composed almost entirely of footage filmed by police, The Perfect Neighbor is a harrowing documentary about a black woman shot by her white neighbour in Florida. The director reveals how she made it‘To this day,” says Geeta Gandbhir, “I’m devastated.” The film-maker is talking about the killing of Ajike “AJ” Owens, a black woman shot dead by her white neighbour in Florida two years ago. Gandbhir first came to the case in a personal capacity, as 35-year-old Owens was a family friend.But things quickly changed. She and her team worked hard to drum up media attention and pressure law enforcement and government institutions to take action – and hold this neighbour, 60-year-old Susan Lorincz, accountable. They began filming protests and vigils, intending to create short pieces for news outlets. Continue reading...

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