AKRON, Ohio — Neighbors in a community where a 24-year-old man was shot to death Wednesday said loud parties and fights became an increasing occurrence in recent months.

The man was fatally shot about 6 p.m. at a home in the 1100 block of Diagonal Road. He has not yet been identified and no arrests have been made in the case.

9-1-1 call

Akron police have been called to the home 11 times in the past four months for noise complaints and fights, records say.

"It used to be very quiet here," Andrea Clark, neighbor and mother of two young children said. "Now there's always fights out there."

Clark said she and two children — ages 2 and 6 — were watching cartoons when she heard about seven gunshots.

Clark said about a dozen people scattered from the home.

"We knew this was going to happen at some point," Clark said.

Two men on Thursday walked up to the home where the shooting happened and knocked on the door. One said his children were at the home when the shooting took place. Another said he was at the party. Both declined further comment.

A discarded liquor bottle remained in the driveway and a couch sat behind the home.

Investigators said an argument at the home led to the shooting and the 24-year-old man was shot several times. A woman called 9-1-1 about 15 minutes after the shooting and said she was unsure if the man was alive or dead.

"I know for a fact that someone was shot and is laying back there," the caller said. A dispatcher then asks if the caller knows if the man is dead or alive. "He might not be," the caller says.

Akron police records say officers have been called to the home nearly a dozen times since Aug. 2.

Police were called five times due to people fighting at the home, including twice in the span of 25 minutes on Oct. 7. In that case, callers reported about six to eight people fighting in the driveway.

An officer broke up the fight, but had to return because the fighting started again, records say.

Five other times police were called because of loud music, including once on Sept. 16 when a caller reported several drunken people sitting on the porch and being loud. Another call came after an alarm sounded at the home, records say.