Sunday, February 28, 2021
Apartment Life #241
This is a new weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 22 years that we've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 23 years here in a weekly blog post.
On Wednesday the police showed up in force. 2 men down the street were shot in the head and the gunman fled on foot back to his apartment right across the street from me. One was just a superficial wound the other guy was taken to the hospital in critical condition. They were here for hours looking for the gunman.The police were knocking on doors and telling people they had to leave because of an armed suspect. So this lady got her 5 kids out and left in that car right there.
I took a little video when the police arrived across the street from me on Wednesday. The lady who came and got her kids out of one of the apartments is in the car right there and she left. You can also see a man holding his kid come out of another apartment. They made all the residents in that building vacate their apartments for hours, I'm assuming because they thought an armed suspect was in one of the apartments.
The lady got her kids in the car and left.
There was one officer outside this apartment building for a while and other officers were walking around the back where the alley is.
Here he is walking to his police car with his rifle.
There were a bunch of police cars here.
At one point a bunch of the police were standing outside and other officers were in the back in the alley on the loud speaker asking the people in one of the apartments to come out with their hands up. I took a little video and uploaded to my FB of the police on the loudspeaker if you wanted to listen to it. There were around 6 cops standing around for hours, first searching for the gunman, questioning a guy and then trying to get into all the apartments. At first we were told that they caught the gunman but they later let him go and I talked to him when I had Falcor outside. He was mad because the police thought he was involved and questioned him but they let him go and kept looking around here for the guy.
One of the police officers told my daughter that the guy who had been shot in the head was still alive when they ambulance picked him up but they weren't sure he was going to make it.
I think they caught the person they were looking for because I started seeing people going back to their apartments and they were letting people walk around outside again.
So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.
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I don't think I could cope with that much excitement week in and week out.
ReplyDeleteIt has taken some time to get used to this.
DeleteI'm so scared of guns, I'm so happy they are not used here so often!
ReplyDeleteSeems like everyone here has one.
DeleteYet another one! Crazy stuff, seriously. 😏
ReplyDeleteI know. One of these weeks it will be quiet again.
DeleteThe police has quite a lot of work in your area! Pity you have to dwell there!
ReplyDeleteThe police are in a lot of neighborhoods here it seems. Things like this happen all over.
DeleteThat's a truly scary situation. Thank goodness you're safe. Hugs, RO
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ro.
DeleteCertainly hope they caught him! How terrible.
ReplyDeleteI hope so too.
DeleteI sure hope they caught the guy and hope the man who was taken away in the ambulance made it. So scary!
ReplyDeleteI hope so too.
DeleteWow crazy that everyone had to vacate. We have to vacate every now and again due to the fire alarms going off.I loved the picture, there was something about them that was remeniscent of CA
ReplyDeleteYeah, they made them all vacate. I don't see that often.
DeleteYour apartment sees so much action. I hope the guy who got shot is OK.
ReplyDeleteI hope so too.
DeleteI’d be very upset having to leave my home during a pandemic. It’s just awful for everyone who has to put up with this crap. Hopefully the shooter is gone for good.
ReplyDeleteI know. People were out all over the place that day.
DeleteThat really is scary, we worry about you especially when you're out walking Falcor.
ReplyDeleteI worry sometimes too.
DeleteWe pretty much covered this when we talked on Twitter, but still. Chilling.
ReplyDelete"He was mad because the police thought he was involved and questioned him but they let him go and kept looking around here for the guy."
Poor fellow. That must have been an ordeal.
At least they let him go. I hope they found the guy who they were looking for.
DeleteSuch a crazy neighborhood you live in. Glad you were safe and didn't have to vacate!
ReplyDeleteI am too.
DeleteOh wow. You guys be safe!!!
ReplyDeleteWe will try to.
DeleteCrazy week indeed! Hope the guy survives. It's all too scary, keep safe.
ReplyDeleteI hope so too.
DeleteI guess on get use to it.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is on and stay safe
Yeah I hsve kinda gotten used to the craziness.
DeleteThis is not the kind of excitement one wants to see in the neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteNo it's definitely not.
DeleteWow that's scary!
ReplyDeleteYeah it was.
DeleteGoodness, quite a drama. I'd be pretty alarmed if two men down my street had been shot in the head. All drug-related, presumably?
ReplyDeleteI would assume it was drug related.
DeleteWhat a total nightmare. It must be damn scary when this kind of thing is going on. I'm so glad you're safe though.
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely scary when there's an armed gunman on the loose.
DeleteOh my goodness, this is definitely one of your worst weeks ever!
ReplyDeleteNicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
Yeah, it wasn't good at all.
DeleteOMG what an ordeal. I hope the guy in critical condition lived :(
ReplyDeleteI hope so too.
DeleteRather scary.
ReplyDeletePleased to read you were safe and didn't have to vacate.
All the best Jan
I'm glad we didn't have to vacate either.
DeleteThat's crazy. Outdoes anything I've seen over many years of apartment hell living. Give me woods, seclusion and no people anytime!
ReplyDeleteYeah it was a bad week.
DeleteThat is scary
ReplyDeleteyeah it is.
DeleteI really wish you could move. 😢
ReplyDeleteI wish I could too.
DeleteIf that's a typical day, it might be time to go Apartment Hunting. That said, I lived in a Beloved Historic 100+ Year Old Home in Da Hood for Years and miss it to this day, wish I'd never Sold it. To me it was harder to live in a McManse in pretentious uppity Subdivision Hell, where there was no sense of Community and they wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. At least in Da Hood everyone had your back if you were a long time Resident and knew everyone. Now we bought a Mini Farm that is in the middle of the City {Metro Phoenix area, so a rare Luxury to have a Mini Farm near everything}, it's the best of both Worlds and we squeaked in right before COVID hit. *Whew!*
ReplyDeleteIf I could find an apartment for this cheap I would move but this is the cheapest I could find.
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