Today, our paranoid neighbor attacked us in the hallway when we came home from walking our dog. In the event he murders us in our sleep, this is an online record of his actions and behaviors that he does not know exists.
The following is an email sent to our building managers to record today's events. The police were eventually called by our building manager, but the police said they could not do much. The police did, however, acknowledge there are some serious mental health issues happening in Neighbor's head, and that there are signs of extreme paranoia.
Our email reads:
Hello M****,
This email is to report an incident that occurred on 11/15/15 at approximately 4:30pm.
J____, myself, and our pug, A____, were returning home from a walk through the neighborhood. As we approached our apartment door, the unit across the hall from us whose door faces our door exactly(Unit 5) had their door open, which has been a common occurrence for the last 12 or so months.
As we got to our door, the occupant of Unit 5, Rob, came into the hallway and started yelling at us. We have not interacted with him at all today, which is normal, other than when I tried to hold the gate open for him earlier. We were just leaving for our dog walk as he was entering the building, so I tried to open the gate for him, and he said he got it. That was the extent of our interaction. We normally ignore him or dont speak to him because he has a tendency to mutter obscenities under his breath, seemingly at random (which we have reported to you in the past).
When he started yelling at us in the hallway, he got in our faces, yelling about punching us in the face. He was yelling things like "be a man" (offensive to us since we are a gay couple), "you better watch out or i'm going to punch you in the face next time" and other such things.
I told him to stop it and tried to shuffle Jerry and our dog Atlas into our apartment. At this time, J___, A___, and I are partially in our own unit and Rob is standing on the threshold of our apartment door, still screaming and yelling. J___ was trying to yell at him to get him to leave us alone, and I got in between them to tell them to stop, repeatedly. When I had gotten J____ and A___ into our apartment and tried to close our front door(Rob was right in our doorway at this point), he shoved our door open with both his hands with a lot of force. If I had not caught the door, it would have slammed into J___'s head as well as our dog with enough force to cause injury.
As soon as we got into our apartment and locked the door, I texted you about the situation. We could hear Rob through our door yelling because he keeps his door open, and he was yelling about how angry he is that the building owners "keep filling up the apartments with government conspirators" and other paranoid statements. As you know, J___ and I are not "government conspirators," though I do work for the City and County of SF and wear a badge.
At this point, we do not feel safe living across the hall from him. Our units are at the very end of the hallway where no cameras are and there is very light foot traffic. There is also a bend in the hallway so no one in the other parts of the building can look down and see us. He keeps his door open often, staring at us and staring into our apartment. In the past, we just tried to ignore this behavior and be patient about it, but now it has escalated to him verbally attacking us in the hallway, shoving our door open, and threatening us with physical violence. I have told you before this that I have even caught him doing things like one day, our food delivery arrived and I met the delivery man in the hallway. Rob had his door open that day (common as I said), and he followed me down the hallway to see what I was doing (he could not see from his door due to the bend in the hallway like I mentioned above). I don't know what he thought I was doing, but when he saw I was accepting food delivery and turned around to go back to my apartment, he scurried back into his own, trying to hurry that I wouldn't notice him (but I did).
He has been exhibiting very odd behavior like this in the past, but like I said, now it has gotten to the point of threatening physical violence, verbal abuse, and physically shoving our door open and getting in our faces right at our door.
He is paranoid and unpredictable. We are very concerned for our safety.
Please help,
H*****, J****, and A**** in Unit 6.
