Residents Feeling Frustrated & Hopeless After 2 Killed In Shooting At Apartment Complex
THORNTON, Colo. (CBS4) - A 17-year-old is in custody after a deadly fight Thursday night in Thornton, accused of shooting and killing two men outside an apartment complex on East 88th Avenue near Grant Street.
At the Renaissance 88 apartments in Thornton, a 9 year old girl told CBS4 she was nearly caught in a spray of gunfire. Frustration among parents is palpable.
"Nobody should have to live like this," said resident Shaneqia Bohannan.
But the sense among folks who live in the low-income apartment homes is that they do in fact have to live like this.
In the latest act of recurring violence, two men were shot and killed at the complex after a fight broke out.
"It sounded like death, it just sounded like death," said Gil Roberts, another resident.
One of those two men is 19-year-old Isaac Gonzales. Felecia Garcia said her brother lived at Renaissance 88 with his mother. He died on the lawn in front of everyone.
"I think it will stay the same," said Garcia. She said she never feels safe at the home.
"It's gonna leave a moment of people talking about it, but … hopefully something does come out of it," she said.
Police arrested a teenager for the shootings, but that break in the case provides little comfort.
"This is too much, your kid can't even come outside, sit on the porch, you can't even walk to the grocery store," Bohannan said.
"The way it's going, they're gonna grow up to be the same way, of what's going on around here, because there's nothing for them," said Roberts.
Residents believe there is nothing for children in a community that feels fear more often than hope.
Police are not releasing the name of the 17-year-old arrested because he is a juvenile. They are still trying to determine who and what started the fight.
