Weird Neighborhood

My neighborhood is a weird mix. I really like that most of the time. But one of the things I don’t like is that pretty regularly someone at one of the houses / apartments south of us is regularly screaming at someone else (not every night, but it is pretty regular on the weekends)

Usually this doesn’t both us too much, but in the spring / summer / fall when it is nice out and we are sleeping with the windows open (I’m going as green as I can baby!) it is really annoying and usually wakes us up around 1 in the morning.

Well last night was no exception. At at about 1 to 2 am-ish someone started fighting / yelling ouside the apartment next door. Just when I got about annoyed enough to get up and call the cops the yelling stopped.

So then around 3:30-3:45am-ish I heard some people yelling and carrying on, but it was different. A guy was wailing, sobbing, and screaming about someone not being dead. Then I overhear someone sounding like they are on the phone giving the address of the apartment. That is when I got out of bed to see the cops turning off Lake St. and onto my street. About 4 or 5 squad cars come barreling down the street, one stops in front of the apartment building, two in front of my house, and another in front of a house south of the apartment.

Then the cops run out of the cars, break the glass to the window in the door to get in. Then the fire department comes with a truck, followed shortly after by the ambulance.

I don’t know what was going on, but it looked like the cops carried some kids out in blankets, and they were there (with their lights on outside my house) for quite a while. Eventually I fell back asleep because no one was yelling and the firetruck and ambulance left.

Then around 6am a couple of women start wailing, screaming things like “She wouldn’t kill herself, someone did this to her!” And I saw that there was a stretcher with no one on it being put into a station-wagon type of medical vehicle. A few cops were still around and one of them started talking to one of the women screaming to try to calm her down a little. I eventually fell back asleep again, and now the street looks pretty normal. No visible police tape, nothing weird at all.

First nice night outside in a long time, I sleep with my windows open to save some money, and my whole block goes crazy and it looks like one of my neighbors died.

Pretty freaky / crazy night. I tried to get up and find the camera to take a picture of the block, cuz the scene was pretty intense for a while. But then I thought the better of it, and left everything well enough alone.