Apartment Life # 338

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 25 years that I'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 25 years here in a weekly blog post.  

This is a vacant apartment in my complex. Maintenance had the living room window boarded up to keep the homeless out but they just busted out the bedroom window and were even crawling in through the empty air conditioner can. So maintenance boarded up the AC can from the inside and secured the door and the bedroom window better. 

I didn't post this last week when it happened because I wanted to see if I could find anything in the news about it first but I couldn't find anything. So, Last Friday I noticed this officer looking at the sidewalk and into the windows of my building. You can see him looking at my window right here. A moment later he knocked on my door and asked if the video camera I have in my window records, I told him no, it's live only, no recording. He said thanks and left. He asked several other neighbors the same thing who also have video cameras in their windows.

An unmarked police car showed up and this detective got out and was using his flashlight to look at the sidewalk along my building. My daughter and I were curious about what was going on so we watched him on the cameras. 

We saw him come into our courtyard and was still searching the sidewalks with his flashlight. 

So my daughter was texting a neighbor letting her know what was going on and they both decided to go outside and see if they could talk to him. He ended up being a Homicide Detective looking for evidence of a stabbing. 

They both asked him what happened and he told them that someone had gotten stabbed on my street earlier that day. A witness saw the person running down my street in front of my building. The stab victim unfortunately died. This homicide Detective said that this was the 5th homicide in my neighborhood just this week that this neighborhood is getting bad and he told both of them they should arm themselves with guns. 

More unmarked cars showed up and more detectives were walking around. 

You can't see it well but there are three detectives down near the garbage can on the other side of the fence. I went down there the next day to see if I could spot anything on the ground but there was nothing that I could see. 

I wanted to see if I could find anymore info about 5 homicides in my neighborhood in the past week but there is not one word about it in the news that I could find. 

The high this week was 92F/33C

The low this week was 65F/18C

So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.