But I'm more angry now than fearful. We're discussing whether to leave or stay. This just could not be a cross burning in my back yard. It was doused with gasoline and lit at the bottom, but did not fully catch fire, he said. Their apartment building sits in a modest, older neigh borhood, a mixture of tidy homes and run-down properties.
Neighbors say many of the houses are rentals, and the neighborhood has never been segregated.
Some expressed shock and outrage over the incident. I've lived here 53 years, and we've never had this kind of trouble in the neighborhood. There's always been at least two or three black families living here. We don't want things like this happening here. Steve Wilmot and Belinda Hamilton were upset when they came home to find reporters in their neighborhood.