Upstairs neighbor was assaulted last night

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At my cute little rental there are two separate units above me.  One is where DS#2 lives, and next to his unit is a nice young lady who moved in two weeks ago.  She (J) and DS#2 have become pals. She knows he's gay and she trusts him even though they've only known each other a short while

Since this is an old home, the walls and floors are thin and I can hear the floors creaking and voices depending on the street noises, etc.  With J, I am sometimes woken up by footsteps upstairs late at night, but typically go right back to sleep.  No biggy.  I mean, I don't expect everyone to tiptoe just because I'm asleep.  lol  I usually have a small fan going in my room for white noise.  

So early this morning (2:30 a.m.) I had the fan going and I'm awoken by footsteps.  Once again, it's no biggy.  But then I start hearing voices OVER the white noise of the fan.  Which makes my eyes pop open.  I'm like "Huh?".  So I turned off the fan and I start hearing loud thumps and there's a loud male voice talking.  At first I thought it might be DS#2 visiting with her since he's kind of a night owl, but he's not a yeller.  I'm getting mildly irritated at this point because I'm not a fan of being woken out of a sound sleep (and I'm leaving for Oregon this afternoon and I wanted to get a good night's rest), and I had assumed it was a couple night owls jabbering.

After a few minutes I realize it isn't Son talking and I'm getting mildly alarmed.  I wasn't sure what to do.  Then it begins to sound like the two of them (I couldn't hear actual words, but I did hear a "tone" that didn't sound the slightest bit congenial) were moving towards her front door and the stairway.  So I got up out of bed so I could hear better, because I'm still not sure if this a bad thing going on.  I go to my hallway door (which was shut the whole time--no way was I sticking my head out) and I hear J pounding on DS's door.  Son answers the door and I hear J yelling "OMG he's telling me he's going to kill me!!"

So J goes into Son's place and I hear the conversation going on.  So here I am, frozen in my hallway, thinking "WTF should I do?"  Meanwhile, I hear the loud dude coming down the stairs so I run to the window and look outside to the alleyway entrance.  The auto light comes on and I see the dude staggering across the yard.  I can't tell where he's going and since there is another unit below me I was afraid he'd try to break into that unit (which is currently vacant) so I grab my phone and am poised to dial 911 in case he wants to pay ME a visit.  For all I knew, he was going to throw a rock in my window and try to crawl in.  Anyway  I catch glimpse of him trying to climb over the side yard fence (there was a gate there so either he was too drunk to see it or he didn't want to mess with it.)  He tries to climb over and he jack knifes over it and lands on his head on the other side.  He gets up and starts to stagger around.  I'm assuming he made it to the street and walked away.  When I thought it was safe, I stuck my head out my front door with the phone in my hand, but he was nowhere in sight. I figured if I did call the cops, by the time they arrived he would be long gone.

I wanted to make sure J is okay, so I go back to the door to the hallway.  Just as I'm getting to the door to go into the entry way, I hear J run outside, supposedly after the guy, calling his name.  Son runs after her, saying "J come back here!"  

I found out later this morning the reason why she ran outside (even though he had already threatened to rape and kill her) was because she thought he had her phone (he didn't).  Son brings her back inside the house and discovers he locked himself out of his apartment when he went after J.  So he spent the night at her house and early this morning they both left for J's dad's house.  She filed a police report this morning and is going to stay with her folks for a few days until things calm down.

Poor J and Son!  Needless to say, it took me awhile to get back to sleep.  Oy.

[bugandbibs]

Oh my!

Honestly, I would have called the police anyway as soon as I heard her say he threatened to kill her. He could have been leaving to get a weapon. I'm glad everyone is okay.

(Have a safe trip visiting your mom.)

[So_Fetch]

That is crazy! But she knew the guy's name - so I guess at least that makes it easier to file the police report? I hope she pursues a protective order.

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Before I was able to truly ascertain what was going on, I started thinking "jeez, if there is something bad going on upstairs, that poor girl has only two ways out: the door or out the two-storey front window!"

I agree, a call to the cops right away should have occurred.

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It's still unclear to me if she knew the guy or not. In a way I kind of hope she knows who this guy is so the cops know where to find him. When Son gets back into his apartment this afternoon and I can text him, I hope to get more details.

[TR]

Apr 14, 2016 15:13:20 GMT -5 flex said:

It's still unclear to me if she knew the guy or not. In a way I kind of hope she knows who this guy is so the cops know where to find him. When Son gets back into his apartment this afternoon and I can text him, I hope to get more details.

Unless it's a random criminal who introduces himself, the fact that she chased after him yelling his name makes me think she knows him.

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Apr 14, 2016 15:15:51 GMT -5 TR said:

Apr 14, 2016 15:13:20 GMT -5 flex said:

It's still unclear to me if she knew the guy or not. In a way I kind of hope she knows who this guy is so the cops know where to find him. When Son gets back into his apartment this afternoon and I can text him, I hope to get more details.

Unless it's a random criminal who introduces himself, the fact that she chased after him yelling his name makes me think she knows him.

Either that or he was a guy she'd just met and just knew his name.

[RoxMonster]

Hindsight is always 20/20 but if he should come back again sometime and it goes this way, I would definitely call the cops.

Hopefully he stays far away from her and she is OK from here on out. Glad to hear she filed a report.

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I stopped by the house quickly to pick up a bit of mail. The landlady and J's stepmom were there in J's place discussing what the next step is. I have a call into my son to see if there is an update.

[nicbreeful]

She ran after him?!? Girl, let the phone go.. You can always get another.

Poor woman. I'm glad she wasn't hurt.