A man once tried to kill me, here’s my story

Part I.

When I was fifteen years old, I lived in a neighborhood with my mom, dad, two sisters, and baby brother. In the same neighborhood, there also lived a man who was deeply troubled. He would later be found to have a number of mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, but we didn’t know that at the time. Back then, all I knew was that he was eight years my senior, and he could…