Susan Lorincz: Defense presents arguments in trial of woman who fatally shot neighbor through door

OCALA, Fla. — Susan Lorincz’s defense attorneys continued to present their case to jurors Thursday.

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Lorincz is accused of fatally shooting her neighbor, Ajike Owens, through a door in June 2023.

The defense’s case is built around proving that Lorincz was not right up against her front door when she pulled the trigger as prosecutors have insinuated.

A ballistics expert said that Lorincz was halfway into her apartment -- about 10 to 12 feet -- when she shot Owens through her locked front door.

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The expert’s opinion was that crime scene technicians did not calibrate their equipment properly when they took their measurements.

Prosecutors then pounced on that expert, bringing up these points:

Firstly, that based on the angle of the bullet hole, they said that Lorincz would have been holding her pistol over her head if she fired it that far away from the door.

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Secondly, the expert’s opinion was centered on an assumption that the shell casing found its own way onto Lorincz’s counter when she shot the gun.

“It then somehow goes back into the kitchen ... and just lays flat right by the onion,” a prosecutor said. “So that’s what you want the jury to believe?”

“Well, I think that’s the best possible scenario,” the defense’s ballistics expert said.

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Several jurors of the six-person jury own guns.

The trial is expected to conclude Friday.

It is unknown if Lorincz plans to testify in her own defense.

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