On June 2, 2023, Ajike Owens, a 35-year-old Black mother of four, was fatally shot by her 58-year-old white neighbor, Susan Lorincz. The deadly altercation marked the end of a two-year saga of responses from Marion County police to calls from Lorincz about noise coming from the children in their Ocala, Florida, neighborhood and false complaints of trespassing.

Fearing Florida’s Stand Your Ground law would absolve Lorincz of any criminal wrongdoing, filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir and her partner, producer Nikon Kwantu, who were family friends of Owens, immediately went into action to keep the slain mother’s story in the news. When they received a thumb drive with body cam, dash cam and other footage detailing the events leading up to Owens’ death, they realized there was much more to say about p

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