I think my neighbor died

luckya23

As I was getting ready to leave on a work trip this morning, I let my dog out and saw 2 county vehicles across the street.  There were two women in the yard so I stood there to calm the dog and to be nosy.  Finally they asked me if I had seen the elderly man this morning and I said I hadn't seen him outside in months.  I thought he had moved or went to a home, as I hadn't seen meals on wheels coming anymore and a landscaper took over the lawn care.

Shortly after, three cop cars, a fire truck, and an ambulance came.  Everyone left now except for the EMS and 1 county car which have been about 45 minutes with nothing.

I think I missed my window to go on my work trip.  This must happen every day, but I can't believe it!  Hopefully the neighbor is just arguing with them about getting in the van! 

Has anything like this happened on your street?

thefanciestbeckler

Woah! That is crazy! I hope he is ok. I'm always the person who is outside to "walk the dog" or something so I can try to figure out what is going on.

A few years ago a lady in a few houses down got shot. Now bear in mind, the neighborhood I lived at the time in is the picture of Southern suburbia, so things like that don't typically happen there. It was crazy. Several of us were outside when it happened and clearly heard the gunshot. It ended up being an awful domestic situation, where the wife thought her husband was coming over to sign divorce papers but instead showed up with a gun and proceeded to chase her through the house, shooting the whole time.

It was horrible. The woman was pretty severely injured and the husband was in jail for a long time. I think he just got out a couple years ago.

teddygirl9

Not my street, but on my boyfriends parents street - like last week or the week before, someone got shot across from their house. Cops came by asking questions, they had reporters bothering them, etc. They're 99% sure it's drug related. I guess he only lived there a month or something like that, so noone really knew him.

WinstonsGirl

No one died, but someone shot a bullet through my house in my last place.  And I live in suburbia too.  Police think some kids had a high powered rifle, stood at the end of the alley and wondered if the gun would shoot the length of the alley.  It went through my garage, off the deck, into the kitchen, off a hallway wall and through the first pane of window in my front room.  

We were up, but upstairs (thankfully, as it was about 11pm, and we're usually still walking around) and heard something.  It sounded like a shower caddy falling down, but we couldn't find anything.  I found the bullet the next morning.  

littlemushroom

That happened with my neighbor when I was on my honeymoon. My roommate was home though. The neighbor was an older woman that I would see whenever I was outside because she would come over to talk and we mowed her lawn for her and shoveled in winter for her. I always looked to make sure her car was moved each day when I was home to make sure she was okay.

We found out after that the neighbor had called her sister who lived out of town to say she thought she was dying. She refused to call an ambulance. Her sister told her to call my dad to come check on her. She said she didn't want to bother him and that she was just going to go to sleep. A few days later after the sister couldn't reach her, she had the police do a wellness check and they found her.

The neighbor had a history of anxiety attacks, so the sister wasn't too worried when she had talked to her. The neighbor had calmed down before they hung up, and it also wasn't unusual to not hear from her for a few days at a time. So sad. Everyone wishes she would have at least called my dad, but she insisted she didn't want to bother him at 2 in the morning.

NowIamMrsKlein

We live in townhouses, and we had this middle age couple living next door to us. we shared a front stoop and often I would come out for work at the same time as one of them. In Decemberish we noticed that the woman's truck was never around anymore and I never ran into her in the morning. We assumed they had broken up. February rolls around and guy neighbour disappears. No sign of him moving out or anything, Just didn't come home one day. He worked for a delivery company so we first assumed that maybe he took a long out of town job. 

Come spring we were legitimately concerned but didn't really know what to do. His vehicle wasnt there, and there was no sign of anyone coming home. More than once we made comments about hoping that he hadn't died.

He came home months later in the summer and FI was outside when he came home. He stopped FI and thanked us for keeping up the place during the winter (we're supposed to share the shoveling of our stoop and front walk). Turns out his wife has cancer and was initially transfered to a hospital in another province. Then into palliative care so he took a leave of absence from work to spend it with her.

So sad.

Also there has been 2 drive by shootings at the townhouse complex one road over in the last week, one of them in the early evening, and now I am slightly paranoid about being on the ground level as stray bullets definitely went through the adjacent building.

luckya23

The old man just came out on the porch!!  False alarm!!

sparklepants41

Oh my god that is awful! I hope he is okay!

Nothing like this has happened where I've lived, but we do have quite a few elderly neighbors - I will be sure to keep more of an eye on them from now on!

arrrghmatey

An older woman and her bed-ridden husband live in the townhouse across the driveway from us. About a month and a half ago, we were woken up by the fleshing red lights of an ambulance shining through our window. I expressed my concern and hoped the husband was okay. Fi said he's seen an ambulance a handful of times out there in the past and suggested it may be a welfare check.

Over the next week, we saw virtually no activity outside their townhouse. The woman watches her 10 grandkids during the week and the kids are constantly running around outside in the street (much to my annoyance--they don't seem to know to get out of the way of cars and rarely is anyone outside watching them). We didn't see any kids outside for a whole week. The following weekend I noticed a dump truck outside the townhouse and that family members had come over. They were hauling random items including a hospital bed to the truck. I remarked to FI that I think the husband had passed away. Later that afternoon as we were coming home from an errand, the wife came over and told us that her husband had passed.

cupcait927

Nothing as scary as a shooting but we did have a neighbor die and we didn't know for weeks. There is an elderly couple that lives next door and the husband was always working in the yard - mowing, weed-whacking, leaf blowing, just about every other day. Well, in May, we noticed that he hadn't been outside in about a week and thought maybe he just wasn't feeling well. Then we saw a landscaper over there, mowing our neighbor's lawn (funny enough, it was the guy we bought the house from). A couple more weeks go by - still haven't seen the neighbor outside. I finally google his name and saw that he had gotten sick suddenly and passed away a few weeks earlier. It was so sad - he was such a good neighbor, took great care of his house and lawn, and even plowed out our driveway when we were away in December for my grandpa's funeral. 

WinstonsGirl

SoontobeMrsKlein said:

Also there has been 2 drive by shootings at the townhouse complex one road over in the last week, one of them in the early evening, and now I am slightly paranoid about being on the ground level as stray bullets definitely went through the adjacent building.

There was a drive by molotov cocktail thing (used to happen often in one neighbourhood while I was growing up, all gang related).  The couple who lived there was on the news saying they didn't know why they had been targeted.  The next day, it was reported that there was an apology note that their house wasn't the target, they had gotten the wrong house by mistake and wouldn't be bothered again.  Only here would gangs apologize for bombing the wrong house.  

madamerwin

Oh man, that's kind of scary! I have never had a neighbor disappear or die (to my knowledge), but a lot of crazy shit happens on my busy street... We don't live in the best neighborhood, truth be told.

Once I came home to the entire road blocked off with caution tape from my house to the intersection four blocks down. There was a helicopter flying over and cop cars everywhere. I checked the news, and there was a guy three blocks away holed up in a house with hostages. He was eventually arrested and no one was hurt, but it was exciting/scary.

ANOTHER time I came home to two cop cars right outside my house, and two right around the block. I went in to the back yard to talk to my neighbors over the fence, since they were outside watching too. It turns out that there was a family in one of the units in their fourplex who had been evicted (but had not left), who had been renting out the apartment above to a couple of meth heads. I saw everyone packing up, so it seems the cops got them out.

And last year, we started chatting with our neighbor across the street, and he mentioned that the guy who lived in our house before us was crazy (which we had heard from other neighbors as well). A few years back, he saw a bunch of police outside our house, and the tenant and some other guy were having it out on the lawn. Then he noticed cameras - they were actually filming for COPS. He started watching Cops after that, but he said they never showed the footage. I kind of hope one day to turn on the TV to find my front yard on Cops.

Once a homeless guy went in to our garden and stole three pumpkins. We know this because the 90 year-old lady across the street witnessed it and yelled at the guy, be he ignored her.

So yeah. We live on a slightly shady street.

pinupbride6189

Nothing quite as scary as a shooting, or as sad as having a neighbor pass unbeknownst, but I was almost shot with a bow and arrow standing in my front yard (in a suburban neighborhood). I had just checked the mail and was on my way back inside when I heard something fly by my head. I looked around for a little bit, and eventually saw the arrow sticking out of the ground about three feet away from me. Then this couple comes over and apologizing. The boyfriend had just gotten his girlfriend a bow and they were playing with it like it was a toy. They weren't shooting at a target or anything just firing into the air (my subdivision was still being built so there were several empty lots in a row) and they had no idea that it would go that far, and don't worry, they were just field tips...now, I was raised in a hunting household, so I've done my fair share of archery. A bow is a weapon and should be treated as such. It doesn't matter that they were "just field tips" because that still could have injured or killed me. God forbid I would have had my dog out with me, or the neighbor kids had been out playing!

Jen4948

luckya23 said:

The old man just came out on the porch!!  False alarm!!

That's definitely a relief!

The closest thing I've ever experienced to that was when I was a kid and the house next door to my family's caught fire.  Lots of people stood around watching the fire department put out the fire. I saw the girl who lived there crying.  She was a year older than me, and that's the last time I saw her.  I hope she's okay now.  My own family's house (we'd moved to a different neighborhood) caught fire when I was in my early twenties, saving to move out.  Some of our neighbors were kind enough to help us at that time.

lyndausvi

Well I lived in downtown New Orleans.  Cops around was normal. I saw a drive-by once.   Then about 5 minutes after we left our favorite bar there was a shooting outside.  3 people were shot (none were in the bar or patrons, just happen it was outside of the bar). 

  Dude and a chick sitting in their car shooting up at about 4pm on a Friday afternoon right outside our apartment complex.  We noticed as we were walking the dog.  The curb was higher than the street and we had a perfect view of them shooting up.   They had an empty car seat in the back.     We called the cops, they came and arrested them.  He had an outstanding warrant out.  

A few months later we were interviewed by the ADA.   We had moved to Indy by time it was about to go to court and they were going to fly me down.   They couple finally plead guilty as I was a great witness and they knew they didn't have a chance.

Now this was not my neighborhood, but I was watching a discovery ID show and it had a story about a town I lived in  (which was only a few towns over from where I went to HS).   While watching the show not 1 but 2  HS buddies of mine were the cops who investigated the crime. It was funny to see them in that way (even funnier to see the actors who played them in the re-enactment). They will always be my HS buddies causing "trouble" back in the day.  Now they are all upstanding.  Not that they were that bad, but still.

novella1186

The craziest thing I've ever witnessed was when I was a kid and my grandma had some really crazy neighbors. She lives in a quiet little lake community, but the people across the street from her (husband and wife) were always fighting, screaming at each other, throwing shit around, etc and the cops would get called all the time.

 Well, one day we're sitting by the lake having a nice peaceful time, hear yelling, look across the street and sure enough the husband comes barreling out the front door with the wife right behind him swinging an ax. She chased him all around the front yard with it until the cops came. They moved away a year or so after that and I think everyone was glad to see them go. Although, I do hope they moved to separate places. 

ETF words 

julieanne912

Nobody dying, but when I lived in Chicago (Roscoe Village, so not the worst neighborhood by any means), I heard these girls screaming at like 2 in the morning, turned out they were walking home across the street from my building and some guys pulled up in a car and jumped out and punched them and took their purses.  It was pretty scary since our street was usually pretty quiet. 

Now I live in the country, I got to watch a hawk swoop down and grab a little bunny and then perch on our fence just chilling, with the bunny still in it's claws.  We had a nest of bunnies right by our house and I would put up shade and leave water for them, so I always wondered if it was one of "my" little bunnies.

cupcait927

novella1186 said:

The craziest thing I've ever witnessed was when I was a kid and my grandma had some really crazy neighbors. She lives in a quiet little lake community, but the people across the street from her (husband and wife) were always fighting, screaming at each other, throwing shit around, etc and the cops would get called all the time.

 Well, one day we're sitting by the lake having a nice peaceful time, hear yelling, look across the stress and sure enough the husband comes barreling out the front door with the wife right behind him swinging an ax. She chased him all around the front yard with it until the cops came. They moved away a year or so after that and I think everyone was glad to see them go. Although, I do hope they moved to separate places. 

That reminded me of a story from my freshman year of college. One of the girls that lived on my floor was dating a guy that lived on the floor below us. At some point they broke up and she started hooking up with someone else. Dude was so pissed that he came up to our floor one night and started trying to break her door down with an ax. He didn't remain at school after that...

novella1186

cupcait927 said:

novella1186 said:

The craziest thing I've ever witnessed was when I was a kid and my grandma had some really crazy neighbors. She lives in a quiet little lake community, but the people across the street from her (husband and wife) were always fighting, screaming at each other, throwing shit around, etc and the cops would get called all the time.

 Well, one day we're sitting by the lake having a nice peaceful time, hear yelling, look across the stress and sure enough the husband comes barreling out the front door with the wife right behind him swinging an ax. She chased him all around the front yard with it until the cops came. They moved away a year or so after that and I think everyone was glad to see them go. Although, I do hope they moved to separate places. 

That reminded me of a story from my freshman year of college. One of the girls that lived on my floor was dating a guy that lived on the floor below us. At some point they broke up and she started hooking up with someone else. Dude was so pissed that he came up to our floor one night and started trying to break her door down with an ax. He didn't remain at school after that...

Holy shit!!! That would be so scary! Wow. I hope he got some counseling. 

ShesSoCold

I was at my best friend's house when we saw cops and a county van at the house across the street. Someone had overdosed in the house. We watched them carry out the body bag which was really creepy for me. 

Somewhat kinda sorta related, a few years ago my cousin and his niece were killed when he was babysitting her in the house he lived in with his parents. So the parents/grandparents were staying in a hotel. They had dogs, so the dogs were staying at their other son's house, the father of the girl who was killed. No one was arrested for several days and the cops weren't telling us much. One night I ended up staying at the house with the dogs alone, which was really scary for me. They didn't have a backyard and I had to walk the dogs and I noticed a running car sitting on the street at like 2 am. I nearly shat myself when a guy got out but it was an undercover cop watching me and the house for safety. 

A few weeks later when the house was released back to the family from the cops, I was helping them clean it out. We'd only been there like ten minutes when there's a really loud knock on the door. Then before anyone could get to the door, we hear "CUMBERLAND POLICE!!" and a cop comes in with his gun drawn. They didn't recognize my car or out of state plate and thought we were people robbing the place or something. 

NowIamMrsKlein

Our old apartment was ridiculous for the amount of crime that went on. It was the biggest reason why we moved, We figured tightening our belts and paying for a more expensive place would put us in a better neighbourhood. Everyone was nice and calm and great for a year until this past week with the shootings.

But at our old apartment the drug dealing was rampant. It was not uncommon to look out the window and see a cop car parked at each entrance way. Our neighbours across the hall always were screaming at each other, I never could quite figure out their living arrangement but there were 2 young men and an older woman. One night while FI was away at work they got into their usual argument, but this time in the hallway. It got physical, and one of the men was screaming at the other man that he was going to 'fucking kill him' and the woman was cowering on the floor. I called the cops and stayed on the other side of my apartment away from the hallway. but it was probably the most terrifying thing ever. I felt so bad for the woman, and felt guilty for not really doing much, but I was honestly too scared for my own safety. 

They moved out in the middle of the night a month later, and a guy that my FI works with was acquaintances with them and apparently they told him the reason they moved out was because they were 'sick of having nosy neighbours getting up in their business'

thefanciestbeckler

SoontobeMrsKlein said:

Our old apartment was ridiculous for the amount of crime that went on. It was the biggest reason why we moved, We figured tightening our belts and paying for a more expensive place would put us in a better neighbourhood. Everyone was nice and calm and great for a year until this past week with the shootings.

But at our old apartment the drug dealing was rampant. It was not uncommon to look out the window and see a cop car parked at each entrance way. Our neighbours across the hall always were screaming at each other, I never could quite figure out their living arrangement but there were 2 young men and an older woman. One night while FI was away at work they got into their usual argument, but this time in the hallway. It got physical, and one of the men was screaming at the other man that he was going to 'fucking kill him' and the woman was cowering on the floor. I called the cops and stayed on the other side of my apartment away from the hallway. but it was probably the most terrifying thing ever. I felt so bad for the woman, and felt guilty for not really doing much, but I was honestly too scared for my own safety. 

They moved out in the middle of the night a month later, and a guy that my FI works with was acquaintances with them and apparently they told him the reason they moved out was because they were 'sick of having nosy neighbours getting up in their business'

HA seriously???!?! When you are screaming and fighting so loud that your neighbors can hear you, and then move said fighting into the hallway, it becomes everyone's business!!! The nerve of some people.

kvruns

few years ago (in my old house) I got home from a work trip and was just chilling at the house that afternoon (instead of going into work). I happened to look out my kitchen window and see my neighbor fall and couldn't get up. As it happened another neighbor was outside and heard the guy, he originally wanted us to help pick him up but when we tried he was in too much pain.  Had to call 911 to have them send fire rescue to get him up and then off to the hospital. Months later or maybe the next year I saw the same man out "shoveling" snow (really barely pushing the 0.01 inch of snow on the driveway) and I wanted to kill him because I didn't want to see him fall again and repeat the other situation.  The neighbors would always shovel his driveway and he had no business being out there, especially with essentially a dusting of snow.

sparklepants41

luckya23 said:

The old man just came out on the porch!!  False alarm!!

Did not see this when I posted my comment - but PHEW! I'm so glad to hear this!

ChelleJayne

There used to be this old man, Leo, that lived next to my parents. Very nice, little Italian guy. One day I when I was in high school, I was sitting in my room and my window faced his house, I saw these 2 guys that looked like rent-a-cops walking around the house. I went and told my dad, so my dad went outside to talk to the cops. They said they got a 911 call from this address and heard shouting in the background. So my dad walked in the front door and there was Leo watching TV and all was calm in the house. Leo tried to use the phone to change the channel on the TV and accidently called 911.

southernbelle0915

Glad he's ok!! Geez...

Our next door neighbor OD'd and died about 4 days after we moved into our house. I went to CVS and when I came back there was an ambulance, a fire truck, and a handful of cop/detective cars. I saw them carry him out on a stretcher, but at the time, I had no idea he was dead.. We hadn't really met anyone yet, so I didn't actually find that out until a couple months later when another neighbor told me. Really sad!

pinkcow13

H and I currently live in the same apartment that I grew up in. There are a lot of elderely people in our complex. Growing up, a few of my neighbors have passed away, including our next door neighbor. I saw a few being taken away and never making it back. I remember when I was younger one neighbor specifically asked for my Mom as she was taken away (I'm not sure what was wrong, but they were taking her in a stretcher). I don't really remember the details since it was so long ago. Right now, only 2 neighbors remain from my childhood. 

lc07

I'm so glad your neighbor is okay, @luckya23! One of my neighbors died recently. He had a massive heart attack. I don't know how old he was but I would guess mid-sixties. I've also had two neighbors kill themselves inside their home a few years ago (both were in the same family and within a year of each other) and an elderly neighbor die of natural causes. Literally my neighbors (next door, across the street, and neighboring on the back side of my house on the alley side.) I was not SUPER close with any of them, thank God. Still very sad. 

I live in a nice neighborhood that is situated in a slightly rough part of town so there are other much more crazy things that have happened around here, though. 

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When I left my ex b/f I was essentially homeless and had to move in with my aunt for a few years to get back on my feet.  She lived in a retirement community. 

A couple times the cops / ambulances were on our street for the diabetic guy 2 doors down, but I don't think he ever actually died.

There was a fire two streets over that took down one of the mobile homes and the neighbor's garage- owner was burning paper in a plastic garbage can in her garage... 

thisismynickname2

I live in a high rise and a couple years ago, the association president passed me on the street and said, "Did you hear about Steve? He passed away!" Steve was a middle aged man who lived kitty corner from me. His partner who travels extensively couldn't reach him for a few days and the found him dead. So sad.
Like Julieanne, I also witnessed a bird of prey fly off with a screaming bunny. (Tons of bunnies in the city.) That was sad too!

CMGragain

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