The Perfect Neighbor , out on Netflix on Oct. 17, is a documentary about a white Florida woman who shot and killed her neighbor, a Black mother of four in 2023, pieced together using footage from police body cameras .

There are no talking heads, just two year’s worth of recordings of police interacting with the shooter, 60-year-old Susan Lorincz—who frequently made complaints about local kids being loud while playing in a vacant lot near her Ocala, Fla., home—as well as body cam footage of interviews with her neighbors. In 2024, Lorincz was found guilty of manslaughter with a firearm and is now serving a 25-year prison sentence.

Here’s how a community dispute escalated into a deadly tragedy.

A “fearful” neighbor

Lorincz repeatedly called police to report loud neighborhood kids w

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