Saturday, September 20, 2008

Janie's Got a Gun!

At 5am Friday morning i was woken up by someone crying out. At first I thought it was someone drunk just yelling, but then the crying out stopped and 5 gun shots were fired. Yep GUNSHOTS!! I thought to myself, 'was that gunshots? did someone just throw something down the stairs? what was that?' So i get up and go to the kitchen window to see if i could see anything. A man was standing on the landing of the stairs by the parking lot looking as though he was distraught. He had dark shorts on, no shirt, tatoos on both of this shoulders, dark short hair and was dark skinned. He walked around a little bit, looked down toward the downstairs apartment, then walked down there. About this time, Jamie walks into the kitchen asking what was happening. She heard all the same things I did. After that we didnt hear anything. So we decided just to go back to bed. Not 5 minutes later (about 5:30) someone knocks on our door. I go to my door and open it cause I know Jamie is about to flip out and she is gonna run into my room. So, as i opened my door, she comes running in. Said she heard someone say 'help me' as she was running across the hall. This man was walking to each door in our building knocking. Thankfully, the guy who lives next to us opened his door and the guy said (so we find out later) 'call 911. i've been shot. i'm in 602.' So, all this time, jamie and I are sitting on my bed, lights off, whispering, trying to figure out what to do. I wanted to call 911, but she didnt' want them to know our names cause she was afraid if the shooter found out he would kill us too..(??). So I decide to look at the kichen window again and then call 911. When i got to the window there was a fire truck, ambulance, and a couple cop cars. So, we go outside our door cause our neighbor was out there. There was blood EVERYWHERE!!! He was shot on the bottom floor, 5 times, and walked up each flight knocking on each door. There was blood on the door, blood on our threshhold, blood on the rail, blood on the floor. EVERYWHERE! So we just stood there until a couple cops came to talk to us. We looked down at the outside of the appartment where he lived and he had leaned against the wall, where the siding is, and there was blood all over the wall, then went down a little bit to where he was under his window in the corner and leaned against the wall there too. Ben, the next door neighbor, said he was sitting on our steps after he knocked on ben's door then went down to the stairs going up to the street and sat there until EMT got there. There was this old man talking to the cops, that one of the cops said was the guys roommate, which the 3 of us had never seen before. We have seen the guy that was shot quite often, going and coming from work, but never had we seen this guy. which is a little strange. Well, since I saw someone, the cop got my info and Ben's info cause he saw the victim. As I was drying my hair, at about 7am, the detectives came and I had to talk to them as well. He asked if I would be able to notice him if i saw him again. (AHH! I dont know?! Maybe) So, as of right now we know nothing, but speculate it was drug related. Last we heard, the victim was in critical condition at the hopital. Jamie is still freaking out and wants to move. BUT it isn't like we are in any danger. We aren't drug dealers or hookers, so ther is no  reason for anyone to kill us. AT the same time, this is the 2nd murder since June in our apartment complex. So, last night we started looking for new apartments or town homes. Our gated community's gate has been broken for over a year..so this would be a lease breaker for sure! We'll see I suppose.

4 comments:

Kristy said...

Bless your heart! I'll pray for your to find a new apt! I'm with Jamie...I'd find a new one too!

April said...

Aww Susan! How scary... however, I think it's funny that you're trying to pretend you're not a hooker! :)

Krystal said...

Holy moly! I'd be getting the heck out of there too. Be safe!!!

Kim said...

Wow! I do not do well with sounds in the middle of the night. I am glad that you are ok and I hope you find a new "safer" home soon.