A true crime documentary morphs into a horror movie

'Perfect Neighbor' traces the deadly shooting of a beloved community mother.

- ROBERT ABELE

Families protest after the death of Ajike Owens

You can hear the calm relief in the voice of one of the officers reporting to a crime call when he discovers a bunch of normal boys and girls enjoying themselves instead of a citable disturbance—he'd rather they all be having a good time instead of "robbing people.

Routinely dispatched to this unassuming street in Marion County, Fla., the officers are invariably charmed by the tight-knit families they find, joking with the kids, commiserating easily with the parents. Their body cameras sensitive to every tiny utterance, they seem to grasp that the real nuisance here is Susan Lorincz, the angry white woman who keeps calling them to complain, not the kids playing football in an adjacent field.