… It’s beyond disgusting,” he said. “It doesn’t seem like it was about money. It didn’t seem like it was about drugs.”
In 2009, five people were shot in the complex, and residents say squatters have occupied vacant units in the back.
In 2005, a man shot into an Arborwood unit because he was upset a resident wouldn’t sell drugs for him. He killed the woman’s nephew, a 14-year-old sleeping on the couch.
Residents said the complex’s troubles escalated in 2004 when the town council designated the area a redevelopment zone. Condominium owners, fearing the complex would be razed, began selling off units cheaply.
At one point, tennis courts were overrun with vegetation, an adjacent crumbling swimming pool was filled with trash, and utility rooms were locked to discourage their use for prostitution and drug deals.
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