AUGUSTA, Ga. () – Residents say it’s become the wild west at the Bon Air Apartments. They say shootings like this one last month make them afraid to be outside.

“I have lived there for forty years raised four children there now I have grandchildren and I’m afraid to let them go out in the backyards because of gun fire, that they could accidentally be hit with a bullet,” said Becky Smith whose property backs up to the Bon Air.

Bob Duke, the Director of Construction for the owners of the Bon Air, told city leaders the company spent more than $6 million dollars improving living conditions and increasing security at the complex.

“We understand the community has concerns over safety issues we understand the neighbors have concerns over the safety issues we too have concerns over those safety issues,” said Duke.  

But city leaders saying there has not been enough action on the companies concerns about safety.

“Frankly, I believe you need to do better. You owe it not only to the people who live there you owe it to this community, and you owe it to the neighbor who live around that historic building,” said Mayor Garnett Johnson.

Commissioners approved beginning the process to place the company’s business licenses for the Bon Air and Richmond Summit on probation, due to the company’s operation of those two complexes.

“We got major problems, okay, major problems and if it were up to me today, personally, I’d revoke your license,” said Commissioner Catherine Smith Rice.

Duke told commissioner that phase two of security improvements at the Bon Air will be completed by November.

For neighbors and city leaders, they will need to see it to believe it.