If you can't feel safe in your own home, where can we feel safe?

It was just after 2 a.m. on Saturday, October 12, 2019, when the Fort Worth Police Department

received a call on their non-emergency line.

A concerned neighbor, James Smith, was calling to report that a house on his block had their

doors wide open, with the storm doors closed, and all the lights were on.

Smith owned several properties on the block, and had worked alongside many neighbors to

help improve the community.

Looking out for one another was just one effort Smith took to keep his block safe.

He knew the family who lived in the house, and said the doors had been open since around

10 p.m. which seemed unusual.

He had walked over to the house just before calling police.

Although Smith wasn't aware if anyone was home, he did tell the dispatcher that the regular

cars belonging to the residents were in the driveway.

I'm calling about my neighbor.

Okay, what's the address?

Where were three east Allen Avenue?

Okay, 12 o'clock.

Three east Allen Avenue was calling on there.

Wherever four doors have been open since 10 o'clock, and I haven't seen anybody moving

around as not normal for them to have both of the doors open this time.

Smith noted that the residents were usually home at this time, but he had never seen both

of their doors left wide open with the lights on before.

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