COLUMBUS (WCMH) — Sex, drugs and violence. People who live on one particular block of South Hague Avenue in the Hilltop said that’s what they’ve seen at an apartment complex over the past year. Now the city is trying to shut it down.

Monday the Columbus City Attorney goes to court to try and board up the west side apartment complex.

Neighbors said it can’t happen soon enough.

“I feel like I can’t even sit on the porch with my grandkids any longer,” said Mary Hohman.

She’s lived in her Hilltop home for 32 years.

She said over the past year she’s seen it all happening right outside her window. “When I say zombies walking around here at night, that’s exactly what you see. It’s like something on TV,” she said.

The Columbus City Attorney’s office calls the building a, “one stop shop” for drugs.

“Crack, heroin, marijuana maybe some meth, weapons every time also,” said Steve Dunbar with the Attorney’s Office.

In June undercover narcotics detectives bought drugs at the complex.

Later, search warrants uncovered guns- one stolen, ammunition and syringes among other things.

The city said it wants to stop the problem before it gets worse.

“When it is going on day after day, month after month, weapons are always circling around it, it’s a recipe for trouble. We try to jump on that before it gets that bad,” said Dunbar.

Hohman said she’s relieved the city is acting on all her complaints.

“I don’t want it to get to that point that I’m scared to live in my own neighborhood,” she said.

The City Attorney’s Office said the landlords are partly to blame.

It said the landlords knew about the drugs being dealt on their property, but didn’t do anything about it.

It said after learning about the drug activity on their property, the tenants should have been evicted.

Monday the city asks a judge to grant a preliminary injunction against the owners of the property.

That means this building could be boarded up by early next week.