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Elizabeth Jenner has lived just off Jasmine Crescent for three decades now and has watched her neighbourhood take a turn for the worse.

“I live in the front. I see things,” said Jenner from inside the lobby of her condominium on Arrowsmith Crescent, a tiny street running off Jasmine Crescent, which has become the scene of three Ottawa homicides in the past 11 months, the latest that of 20-year-old Nooredin Hassan, who was shot to death Tuesday.

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Jenner sees the people hanging out behind the neighbouring Gloucester Emergency Food Cupboard when it isn’t open. She knows they don’t belong. She sees cars pull up repeatedly, people walking up to the rolled-down windows and digging into their pockets.

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Jenner says she has called the police before, but there is only so much they can do.

“You can phone them and tell them,” she said. “They are not interested unless you’ve got proof.”

Jenner, who celebrated her 67th birthday Wednesday, isn’t scared. She has a car, doesn’t walk far, and typically doesn’t go out at night.