Sheriff: White Florida Woman Claims Black Neighbor She Shot and Killed Threatened Her First

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) A white Florida woman accused of shooting and killing her Black neighbor told investigators she had been threatened by the victim in the months before the slaying, according an arrest report released Thursday.

The report from the Marion County Sheriff's Office came out as Susan Louise Lorincz made her initial appearance in court Thursday. She appeared via video hookup wearing a dark protective vest. It was not immediately clear if she had a lawyer to represent her.

In a statement to investigators after the shooting of Ajike Owens, a 35-year-old Black mother of four, Lorincz was quoted as saying she had problems for two years with children in the neighborhood not respecting her including the victim's children, who range in age from 3 to 12 years old.

Lorincz advised that the children of (Owens) have told her in the past they would kill her, the report says.

The day of the shooting, Lorincz told investigators she had a headache and that neighbors were outside screaming and yelling, kids were running around in a grassy area separating two apartment quadruplex buildings, including hers. She said Owens angrily confronted her and threatened to kill her.