Residents at a Southwest Houston townhome complex off Fondren say the quiet, low-key life they thought they were buying into has turned into a nerve-wracking ordeal. After months of vandalism, threats and confrontations with a neighbor, people who live there describe broken windows, repeated tire slashing and late-night shouting that has left some afraid to step outside their units. The same man was arrested again on Sunday after police say he slashed a man’s tires and threatened a woman with a firearm.
According to ABC13, 39-year-old Daniel Atnafu has been arrested about 10 times in the last two years on charges that include criminal mischief and threats. The station’s reporting and court records outline earlier accusations that range from hitting a dog with a wooden plank and striking a woman with a plastic pipe to brandishing a gun in view of a neighbor’s doorbell camera and breaking windows. One woman told reporters her family had 13 tires cut over two years. ABC13 also reviewed court paperwork showing Atnafu received deferred adjudication in 2024, prosecutors later sought a guilty finding after an alleged probation violation and a judge imposed what the files list as a one-year term that, oddly, was set to end the same day it began…