DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A DeKalb County grandmother says her apartment’s ceiling collapsed and the management team is not doing anything to help her.
Channel 2’s Craig Lucie went to the Aspen Woods apartments in Decatur Thursday afternoon where the damage is extensive. Lucy Carter, 60, says she’s lucky she wasn’t seriously injured when the ceiling fell and part of it hit her.
“That’s the way it sounded, and I took off running. It just hit me and water splattered all over me,” said Carter.
Carter says the ceilings in each room started to cave in.
She says when she came home Wednesday, she saw a large hole in her bathroom and water pouring in.
Her bedroom ceiling was gone. Pools of water were on her bed, and parts of ceiling were scatted throughout the room. She says when she was walking out of her bedroom and closed the door, the bathroom ceiling collapsed, hitting her.
“I took off running,” said Carter.
Part of the ceiling hit her leg, but she says she was inches away from being seriously injured.
“If this fell on top of me, it would’ve knocked me out cold,” said Carter.
Carter told Lucie that the property manager hasn’t been helpful.
“She was very rude. I was upset, and my daughter took the phone, and she hung up on my daughter,” Carter said.
Lucie went to speak with the manager in the main office, and a leasing agent told him that she would go get her.
Moments later, she came back and said the manager was outside and she was wearing a white shirt, but when Lucie went outside, no one was there.
“You said you just saw her?” Lucie asked the leasing agent.
“I did, but she must’ve left already,” she answered.
A Channel 2 Action News photographer saw a woman in a white shirt quickly leave the property as they approached the front door. Lucie left his business card to get their side of the story, but as of Thursday evening, no one has called him.
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