‘Bad energy’: NW OKC building considered a nuisance after shootings, fire
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Oklahoma City Police said a second person died Tuesday after a double shooting at an abandoned school on Northwest 10th earlier this month.
Now, questions have surfaced about the safety of the building.
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“It’s all bad, bad energy,” said one neighbor the night of the shooting. “It’s very bad.”
The murders are still unsolved, and no one has been arrested. The building caught fire in early January as well.
Jennifer Poole called the hollowed-out building home for nearly two months.
“There’s boards you can fall straight down from the second to the basement,” said Poole, who has been homeless for the last eight months.
Robert Brown also lived in the building at one time.
“It’s in disrepair, obviously. It’s very rundown,” said Brown.
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When News 4 was outside the building Wednesday, there was someone working on the inside, throwing doors out open windows and running a power saw.
A ‘For Sale’ sign is also tethered to the side of the building. Online records showed the building for sale for $1.2 million.
Poole and Brown both said they had no other option at the time but to live in the building.
They said limited resources for the unhoused has made it hard for them and they want change. Both said they felt the building could be used for some sort of housing for the homeless.
“It does need to be taken down and put a place where, you know, apartments or something,” said Poole.
“It’s like have a condemned building or we have something here to have to utilize when it’s just sitting on the market,” said Brown.
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