There are 3 bullet holes in my room. One grazed my arm. I am writing this post from the hospital.
I live in an apartment with my mom and my 9 year old sister. Our neighbors are drug dealers and have been terrorizing us since they moved next door. They fought their dogs in our yard. They shot my moms car windows out. They verbally threatened to assault my mom. And tonight, our apartment was caught in their crossfire. About 5 bullets penetrated our apartment, there were a total of about 30-40 gunshots I heard in all. 3 of those bullets entered the apartment right next to my bed, where I was sitting then the gunshots began. If I hadve ducked even 10 seconds later than I did, I would’ve taken 3 bullets to directly to the torso.
We have reported their activities to police three times, and all three times nothing was done. None of the officers even went over to their apartment to ask any questions. They always came in, stayed for a few minutes and listened, then left. I even showed them video evidence of the dogfights they’d have in our yard, which i would insert here but it is too graphic to show and I don’t want my identity out there. and still nothing was done.
We cannot live like this any longer. We need a new home. My mother is an entrepreneur and makes our living solely on ebay. She does well, but we still do not have any money leftover and things are always tight. I don’t have a job, I quit my job to take care of my aging grandmother who lost mobility about three months ago. We need a miracle. I am too afraid to go back to that place. I don’t know what we can do, but money talks and if we can put enough money down, we can get a small rent to own house in a better neighborhood. On top of this, I don’t have health insurance, and the bill for my er visit is looming.
Please. I saw my sister scream “I don’t wanna die” as my arm bled and I held her to try to comfort her as the shots were still firing. I don’t wanna see that again. We cannot stay here and wait for something worse to happen. If there’s any way anyone can help us, even $1, please please please I am begging you, find it in your heart to do so. And even if you can’t or don’t want to, if you’re from the u.s., help us by using your voting power to get these fucking guns off the streets and out of the hands of people like the ones who nearly killed me today.
My paypal email is brittanyb1996@gmail.com
Thank you so much for your time, and god bless.Guys, this post has slowed down quite a bit, and we’re so so close to getting the down payment for the house, we’ve talked to the company and with my mom and my money combined with the money we’ve raised we’re only $250 away from the initial payment to move in! If you can reblog please help! It’s very much appreciated! My mom and I appreciate everyone who’s sent messages and reblogged and donated we really do. We’re soooo close to this we’re soooo close
video evidence of the incident
paypal: brittanyb1996@gmail.com
we’re so close!
we were denied from 4 companies we tried to rent from because my mom has a bankruptcy on her record, and the 5th company increased our down payment by almost $1000 after we were approved. I’m really exhausted and going to sleep every night looking at these bullet holes is mentally exhausting. i jump at every loud sound now and all of us are afraid to stay here. now whenever my sister hears a loud noise she immediately drops to the floor and we can still hear gunshots every single night. i am so tired. my arm is healing but this whole thing has been deeply traumatizing and having to continue to live in this apartment only deepens and extends the trauma. i wanna get out of here so badly and so does my mom, it’s physically eating her up to have to live with me and my sister at risk of dying every night. she doesn’t sleep anymore in favor of watching us in case something happens. we need to get out of here. no one can live like this and be expected to do basic functions. not to mention our landlord has literally done nothing to his shitty apartment. we don’t even have a working tub or shower and our ceiling caved in literally 10 months ago and he still hasn’t fixed it. not to mention he hasn’t even offered to come patch up the bullet holes. and part of the reason we’re short of the down payment is because he gave us an eviction letter and we had to fork over $800 to him to avoid being put on the streets, and this was even after the shooting. we have gotta get out of here I can’t take much more of this. I really am starting to lose hope for good. please I hate living here i hate this please help
paypal: brittanyb1996@gmail.com
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