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and further developed at trial, there were three sets of facts relied on to prove the nuisance: (1)
using without authorization and blocking the parking spots designated to next door neighbor
Singleton and other tenants; (2) having persons who Singleton described as “vagrant looking
people, homeless looking people, people who look like drug addicts” come onto the property
and engage in drug sales and drug-related activity; and (3) threats, harassment, and intimidation
by defendant, Will, Oscar, and others coming onto the property that Singleton associated with
defendant.
The three-day notice did not state the threats, harassment, and intimidation were based
on domestic violence, and portions of the notice appeared to relate to harassment and
intimidation by “threatening gang violence type retaliation if the other tenants make any
complaints about them.” Yet, the notice broadly provided the nuisance was based on defendant
having “engaged in repeated hostile threats towards the other tenants in the building, including,
but not limited to, blocking the parking access and spaces of the other tenants in the building,
and damaging the vehicles of the other tenants in the building,” and plaintiff presented evidence
of several instances involving Singleton getting “dirty looks” and being threatened, harassed
and intimidated for reasons unrelated to parking disputes.
Evidence was presented that Singleton felt threatened and intimidated by defendant
repeatedly having been victimized by Oscar in and around the next-door apartment where
defendant lived. Plaintiff brought forth such evidence when Singleton testified on direct
examination that, what led to the day that defendant and Oscar drove a car close to her and gave
her “stares and dirty looks,” was when on the previous night, “Oscar and [defendant] were
having this fight, and it was so bad that I could hear everything, because it was in the walkway
where the stairs are. Me and my mother, we were talking about it, and they didn’t like us
talking about it.” Singleton also testified on direct to being afraid of defendant and defendant’s
guests, “because they’re violent people. They cause a lot of problems,” and because she has
seen “so many fights outside . . . . with [defendant] and others fighting with other people in the
driveway.” Singleton indicated she texted Keyser, the property manager complaining Oscar
was parking in her spot and that “[defendant] is back with her abuser.”