I used to live in a ghetto apartment complex really, I lived there
for about 10 months. A few months ago, we got new neighbors
downstairs, a young guy maybe 18 or 19, and a girl of the same
age who appeared to be pregnant. Shortly after they moved
inside, I noticed a car was cutting me hard in traffic, and it was
the guy from downstairs. I never spoke to either of them, besides
when he hit her one time and she was crying outside, I looked
into the stairwell and asked if she was okay. It is completely unhinged and yesterday morning before 8:00 am we were woken
up by a scream from the man below us. He's the kind of white
guy who always says the n-word. And he would call her
"b****a**n*****" over and over at the top of his lungs to wake
her up to take him to the infirmary. My son woke me up and
talked to me about the things he was saying because you could
hear it because it was so loud. I turned on the TV so my kids
couldn't hear it but then I could hear them outside very clearly
because we had a crack in our window. She was pulling out of
the driveway and he was on the passenger side and the windows
were completely blown out and I could hear him very clearly
screaming at her and then punching her in the face. She wasn't
even trying to reply or say anything at all. I got out and leaned
over the rail and said you better stop hitting her so he got out of
the car and slammed the door and started coming towards me
telling me he was going to hit my ass next.
My question is as a single mother with a child, is it overreacting if I try to terminate my lease and do I have the right to do so? He was aggressive with me over and over again even when I never spoke to him except for this incident and he is a neurotic and disrespectful person.