Birmingham— When Trista Shulman, 30, moved to Birmingham in 2004, she said she could leave her car in the driveway, doors unlocked, keys inside and not think twice about something happening.
But last week, Shulman said she heard a gunshot outside her house. A couple of weeks before that, someone robbed one of her neighbors.
And with a woman firing two bullets in downtown Birmingham earlier this month and an 18-year-old man from Troy caught walking downtown with a loaded M-1 rifle, fear has started to set in for the mother of three.
"It's frustrating not to be able to leave the door open for my son when he comes home from school," said Shulman, who lives near Woodward Avenue and Maple Road, less than a mile from downtown. "He has to ring the doorbell to get into his own house. "I don't know what this world is coming to."


From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2...#ixzz1st9eW2tQ