DECATUR, Ga. — There are concerns about a potential health hazard after blood drenched a DeKalb County apartment complex hallway for days.
Witnesses say a man punched through a glass window out of anger and bled all over the walls, doors, and hallway on Sunday at the Waterford Manor Apartments in Decatur.
Shabon Harris said she started to clean up the mess herself before anyone from the property came to do the job.
"I was here and I seen what happened. Children play here. No one else was gonna do it," Harris told Channel 2's Matt Johnson.
Five days later, the glass still litters the grass where children play.
Neighbors told Johnson that the manager arranged for people to merely paint over it and not wash it off.
"After a while that smell gets overwhelming," Harris said.
Johnson called the property manager and she told him she found out about the problem on Thursday.
She said the walls will eventually be chemically treated and the carpet replaced but offered no timetable for cleaning all the blood.
Another neighbor, who asked not to be identified, showed Johnson the call logs from when she says she told management about it on Monday.
"I called Monday, Thursday, my mother went up there today," the neighbor said.
Two hours after Johnson spoke with the manager, a carpet removal crew was on scene to tear out the blood stained carpet but not replace it.
Now residents are waiting for a permanent fix to a disturbing problem.
"Wash it down, bleach it, chemicals instead of just painting over it," the woman said.
The carpet was removed Friday but it hasn't been replaced, so the blood is still there on the exposed floor.
WSBTV
