EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 For years, neighbors in a Northeast El Paso neighborhood say they felt unsafe because of a home on Wickham Avenue that has been the subject of dozens of calls for service and repeated complaints.<\/p>\n
As of Feb. 10, there had been 65 911 calls made since December 2023 and 27 311 calls since August 2021 tied to the home. <\/p>\n
The calls ranged from trash and overgrown weeds to reports involving domestic disturbances and assault.<\/p>\n
Neighbors said they were harassed and assaulted by individuals who lived in the home, and some said they did not feel safe walking down their own street.<\/p>\n
“They condemned the place and nobody should be in there. So right now there’s peace,” one neighbor said.<\/p>\n
RECOMMENDED: Experts testify on casings, fingerprints and autopsies in Nathan Rivas shooting case<\/a><\/p>\n Neighbors also raised concerns at an El Paso City Council meeting, claiming people had been living in the house without utilities.<\/p>\n \u201cThese people have been living there for years with no electricity, no gas, no water,\u201d one speaker said during the meeting.<\/p>\n Another neighbor described the conditions, saying, \u201cThey don\u2019t have services, so I really don\u2019t know how they were able to live in there,\u201d adding, <\/p>\n And the smell in the summer was really bad.<\/p>\n Neighbors said they began seeing progress from the City after speaking at the meeting. <\/p>\n \u201cEverything so we did that and nothing was happening. So the next step was have the opportunity to talk to the mayor. Mayor helped us a lot,\u201d one neighbor said.<\/p>\n Emily Schmalz reports on a Northeast El Paso home facing years of complaints from neighbors.<\/p>\n El Paso City officials said they have been working on the matter for more than 16 months and only recently condemned the property, placing danger signs around the property.<\/p>\n Neighbors said they dealt with threats while the individuals lived there. <\/p>\n One neighbor said, <\/p>\n So they were terrorizing us, walking outside.<\/p>\n Some neighbors declined to be on camera, citing fear of retaliation. <\/p>\n One neighbor, who said she had taken the brunt of the violence, told KFOX14\/CBS4 she got into a physical altercation with an individual from the home.<\/p>\n