Residents of a Dallas high-rise say crime is a problem – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Dallas police investigators continue to work to reconstruct a shooting that injured three people, including a Dallas ISD high school student, downtown Thursday, while efforts to identify and arrest a shooter are underway.

Neighbors who live in the Continental Building said that while violence is not an everyday occurrence, the shooting is indicative of ongoing crime problems.

One local resident, Katherine, told NBC 5 that she is now planning to rethink where she lives for the upcoming beautiful weekend.

“It's busy,” Katherine said. “It's busy.”

She said that happened before Dallas police were called to her building at 1810 Commerce Street on Thursday afternoon for a shooting.

Dallas police said when officers arrived at the high-rise apartment building, they learned three people had been shot inside, including a Dallas ISD high school student. All victims are reported to be OK, but investigators said there have been no arrests and no suspects have been publicly identified.

Because of the shooting and the response, busy downtown streets were closed for hours on Thursday.

Downtown Dallas Inc., an advocacy group for people who work, visit and live downtown, said the city's overall decline in violent crime includes the downtown corridor.

“We are really fortunate not to have a history of violent crime in the inner city and we want to keep it that way,” said DDI Executive Director Jennifer Scripps.

Although the shooting represents a rare case of violent crime in the Continental, online records show that Dallas police have responded to at least nine incidents there since July 1. Most of the calls involved car and property thefts.

Although Katherine only felt comfortable using her first name, she said that in the last year, after living in the building for three years, she has noticed a noticeable decline in the quality of life, mainly because people have been entering the building who have no business being there.

“When they come through these two doors here, come in and get in the elevator, there are people walking around in the hallways,” Katherine said.

Our questions to Bradford Properties, the Continental's Chicago-based management company, did not receive an immediate response Friday.