The bullet that killed 35-year-old Ajike “AJ” Owens came through her neighbour’s closed door. Owens had walked up to the 58-year-old white woman’s doorstep in Ocala, Florida, on Friday night to confront her for allegedly calling her children racial slurs, taking their iPad, and then throwing skates at her son.
But before the Black mother-of-four could face her neighbour, she was fatally injured in front of her nine-year-old child. Despite first responders’ attempts to keep her alive as she was rushed to hospital, Owens ultimately died for doing what any mother in her shoes would have done, her family said.
