“No Trespassing” signs hang on the doors of a Latrobe apartment building where 15-year-old Devin Capasso was shot and killed on the fourth floor Tuesday night.
"It's just got me nervous just being here, it's got me scared," said tenant Vanessa Jordan.
Jordan has lived in the building for nearly four years. She told channel 11 Thursday that, over time, she and other tenants have noticed things getting worse.
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"Drugs … I mean the list goes on, drugs and now all of a sudden there's a murder," she said.
"We've had a few wakeup calls, I had a Playstation stolen out of my apartment,” said tenant Elijah Straw. “My girlfriend just had her door kicked in. We knew it was a bad building -- we didn't know it was this bad."
Latrobe police Chief Jim Bumar calls the building on Main Street a nuisance.
"Disturbances, recovered stolen property, debris in alleyways thrown from apartments,” he said. “It's definitely a nuisance property."
Andrew Braddy, 17, was
in Capasso’s death.
Jordan told Channel 11 that was her breaking point.
"I want to move out,” she said. “I do, I want to move out, I can't do it no more. It's got me shattered."
Channel 11 reached out to the property owner. They say they do background checks, but "young tenants do not have records in the court system.”
They realized that was an issue a month ago, so they're no longer accepting tenants younger than 21 years old.
Jordan thinks even more can be done.
"I think more cameras,” she said. “I think one at the each end of the hallways.”
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