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Netflix' new documentary, The Perfect Neighbor , chronicles a neighborhood dispute that turned deadly
The film details what happened in the two years before Susan Lorincz shot through a door and killed mother of four Ajike Owens
Owens' mother, Pam Dias, hopes the film will inspire change
Ajike Owens showed up to every one of her children’s sports practices, volunteered in their classrooms and made time to cook a family meal every night for her boys Isaac, 14, Israel (known as Izzy), 12, and Titus, 6, and daughter Afrika, 9.
“She was the football mom and a cheer team mom too,” says Owens’s mother, Pamela Dias, 56. “How she did it, I don’t know, but she was very hands-on.”
Like other devoted parents, 35-year-old Owens — whom everyone called A.J. — was also protective of