Before 23-year-old Damian Bowie was shot and killed during a visit to a Tampa apartment complex, the property manager had repeatedly asked for better security.

“The property had a very violent history of crime—armed robbery, assaults, shootings—and it’s in one of the rougher neighborhoods in Tampa,” said Coral Gables attorney Douglas McCarron with the Haggard Law Firm, who represents Bowie’s family. “She was informing her superiors, ‘We need to do something.’”