December 20, 2025 – This movie might be in the vanguard of a new trend of making documentaries entirely from police body cam, phone and other modern video capture sources. I've never seen anything quite like it before. You'd think these audio-video sources would be piecemeal, but it works very well.

The bulk of this movie is made up of body cam footage from Marion County Sheriff's deputies, who respond multiple times to the same address in Ocala, Florida, the home of a single woman, Susan Louise Lorincz. She repeatedly calls in complaints about kids playing on or around her property. Deputies responded to this neighborhood so many times, they are well aware of the disputes between Lorincz and her neighbors.

Watching the body cam videos of the deputies responding to these calls, it appears there is really nothing they can do about these disputes. Lorincz doesn't like kids, and there are lots of kids in her neighborhood. Four kids live right across the street from her, in the home of Ajike “A.J.” Owens. This leads to bad blood between Owens and Lorincz. Other body cam video shows Lorincz appearing emotionally disturbed because of an unrelated legal dispute. There are other references to Lorincz's troubled emotional past.

Deputies and neighborhood parents tell the kids in the neighborhood to avoid confrontations with Lorincz. If she bothers them, they are told to leave her alone and tell their parents about the encounter. On the evening of June 2, 2023, deputies got a call from Lorincz about trespassing. Heading towards her house, two minutes later, the sheriff's office dispatch relays another calls from the same area about a shooting. Shortly after that, Ajike Owens is found mortally wounded near Lorincz's house.

Owen's death from a gunshot wound gains national attention because Owens was black and Lorincz is white. Additionally, Lorincz claimed she was under her attack because Owens was pounding on her door. Owens was reportedly angry because Lorincz had allegedly thrown something at her son a few minutes earlier. Under Florida's “Stand-Your-Ground” laws, Lorincz might claim self defense, even though she shot Owens through a locked door from inside her home.

According to this film: “Stand Your Ground laws have been linked to an 8% to 11% increase in homicide rates, or roughly 700 additional deaths each year. Research has found huge racial disparities, with white Americans much more likely to find success with self-defense claims, particularly when they kill black people.”

There was immense pressure from the left to arrest Lorincz on a murder charge, but she was not arrested right away. Sheriff Billy Woods said his department needed to conduct more interviews and to evaluate the Stand Your Ground law to see how it applied to the case. More pressure comes from national media coverage, and Al Sharpton's impassioned eulogy at Owen's funeral.

At the funeral, Sharpton told her children, who were remorseful for the aftermath of their own actions, “Don't grow up feelin' guilty. Don't say Mama wouldn't have died if it wasn't for me, no. Mama chose to stand up for you. Because Mama knew if she allowed people to degrade you and she'd not stand up for you, that you'd grow up with a feeling that you were something that could be degraded. She chose you over her. That's what mothers do. I want you to go and be everything she wanted you to be.”

Lorincz was arrested four days after the shooting, and charged with manslaughter, and other lesser related charges. I was surprised at the outcome of the trial, decided by an all-white Florida jury. Experts say that one of the reasons for the conviction is that there were witnesses to the crime that contradicted Lorincz's story. There was other evidence against Lorincz as well. Lorincz was noticeably thinner at her trial appearances than she was when she was arrested.

The filmmakers here do a masterful job of telling a compelling story with lots of bits of footage from various sources. This is very much a movie that has a point of view opposed to Lorincz and it makes her out to be a villain, but it also appears that Lorincz really is a villain. She is currently talking about suing the Owens family for “slander, libel and defamation of character,” according to a letter written by Lorincz quoted on November 3, 2025 by Fox35 Orlando. The Owens family is suing Lorincz for the wrongful death of Ajike Owens, according to multiple sources.

After watching this movie, I got to wondering when Lorincz, sentenced to 25 years in prison, is eligible for parole, but it turns out there is no parole in Florida. A person convicted in Florida must serve at least 85 percent of their sentence. That means Lorincz won't be eligible to leave prison before mid-2046, unless she wins on appeal, or if she dies before that date.

Another thing I took away from this film is the professionalism of the Marion County Sheriff's deputies and investigators as they worked the case. I was also impressed by the deputies interactions with Lorincz and her neighbors before, during and after the shooting, as depicted in the film. Southern law enforcement people get a bad rap in a lot of movies, but not in this one.

Part of the reason that documentaries have more impact than many fictional films is because of their believability. Because of how this movie is put together from so much actual raw footage, it has a huge emotional impact. This film rates a B+.

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