SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – A broken door has been fixed at an apartment building where an elderly woman was disabled, but many still want increased security.

Schonowee Village is municipal housing apartments for the elderly and disabled.

Schonowee Village resident Sandy Giello showed NEWS10 ABC on Monday how anyone could enter her apartment building without a key.

Days earlier, on Saturday, February 23, police said 21-year-old David Sinkler forced his way into an elderly woman’s apartment and sexually assaulted her.

“That’s not secure, and I reported it two weeks ago,” Giello said on Monday.

Richard Homenick is the executive director of the Schenectady Municipal Housing Authority. He said the door was promptly fixed after it was reported broken two weeks ago.

“It just had some rock salt that was brought in with someone’s feet in the threshold,” he said.

Sometime after that, he said a tenant may have tampered with the door so friends could come and go.

“To me, that’s egregious enough where we could move to evict someone from the building for that,” Homenick said.

The door is now secure, but Homenick said it wasn’t to blame for Sinkler gaining entry. He said the Schenectady man was buzzed in through the intercom system.

“People need that because they can’t always go up and down stairs, but on the other hand, it’s an opportunity for people to try to enter a building by just randomly pressing until someone just clicks them in,” he said.

Homenick said it’s up to tenants to be vigilant about who gets let in. But some are calling for increased security for public housing.

“I think there should be cameras, and if not, I think there should be 24-hour security,” Shaqueena Putnam said.

Putnam and her mother, Tyera Putnam, said more should be done since vulnerable people live in the apartment building.

“They’re the older generation,” Tyera said. “They can’t protect themselves, so they need to be protected. It’s a lot of work, so that this doesn’t happen again because it’s a travesty what happened to that lady.”

Homenick vowed the housing authority will take the concerns into consideration.

“We will do everything we can to work with our tenants to keep this from happening,” he said.

Police caught up with Sinkler 24 hours after the alleged crime was committed. He’s facing two felony charges of Burglary in the First Degree and Criminal Sexual Act in the First Degree.