A Nigerian mother of four, Ajike Owens was shot dead by a white neighbour while she was trying to re

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A Nigerian mother of four, Ajike Owens was shot dead by a white neighbour while she was trying to recover an iPad taken from her child in front of their home, in a housing complex, in Ocala, Florida, the United States.

The 35-year-old woman popularly called AJ was killed in the presence of her 9-year-old son, according to a Twitter post made by a civil rights lawyer, Ben Crump, on Monday.

Crump alleged that the Nigerian woman was shot by her 58-year-old woman neighbour who had complained several times about Owens children playing outdoors, according to the Guardian UK
The US attorney also disclosed that the police have yet to make any arrest because of the state s stand your ground’ rule, describing the murder as unjust killing.

In his own reaction, the Marion County sheriff, Billy Woods disclosed at a Monday afternoon press conference that the shooting seemed to be the culmination of a feud between the neighbours.

Woods added that deputies had been called to the address “six to eight” times in two and a half years.

He said he could not confirm that Owens was attempting to retrieve an iPad when she was killed, but said the shooter had thrown a pair of skates towards Owens’s children before the fatal confrontation.

Woods said, Somebody threw something at my child, I had be pissed off, What parent would not be? Who would not be upset at that, regardless of whether they intentionally threw it at them or not?

I wish our shooter would have called us instead of taking actions into our own hands. I wish Mrs Owens had called us in the hopes we could have never got to the point in which we are here today. The Guardian UK said Woods did not identify the shooter s name, age or race, but added she was being cooperative.

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