I could not agree more with what these other residents have written.
Do yourself a favor and stop by on some weekend night before you even THINK of moving to Andante Apartments in Phoenix.
Management completley horrible (especially Mandy - the main manager) Brian I agree is good, but he's pretty much powerless.
The rent is low, but it means you'll be living next to people who are going to fight and party all night and probably break into you car.
There is no security (they list a security officer, but if you try to call him all he does is tell you to call the police - he says that he's not employeed to patrol or respond to anything (no kidding - he's just a cop who lives here who gets a rent discount if he lets them list his phone number - he told me that)
Anyway, here are a few articles about the killing spree that went on here last year (managment STILL will no offer security.
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Deadly stabbing spree leaves Ahwatukee apartment tenants shaken up
Lindsey Collom
The Arizona Republic
Oct. 13, 2004 02:20 PM
Stunned residents of a high-end Ahwatukee Foothills apartment complex are still trying to piece together a stabbing spree that left two dead and one in critical condition.
Residents ran from their apartments about 11:20 p.m. Tuesday night after hearing a fire alarm. Once outside they saw a woman sprawled across a walkway. They thought she was drunk.
That woman was a 28-year-old mother, stabbed to death in her doorway as her infant lay inside. She was one of three victims as a tenant in the complex went on a rampage that started with his roommate. At one point the attacker broke into an apartment and started stabbing one of its occupants until they beat him off with a baseball bat.
I'm just trying to figure out how he got into the apartment," said Audrey MacIntosh, 37, who lives in the complex. "It scares me. It's just me and my two boys."
MacIntosh moved into the Andante Apartments at 15801 S. 48th St. last year for a second time, returning because she liked the gated community so much. It was safe, she said.
But her sense of safety was jarred Wednesday morning when her mother called about the stabbing after seeing it on TV. MacIntosh had no idea; her apartment is in a different part of the complex.
"I never in a million years would have thought," she said. "I leave the door open. I walk to the store at night. I won't be doing much walking anymore."
As residents spent much of the morning Wednesday chatting with neighbors to try and figure out what happened, police surveyed the scene and logged evidence.
Phoenix police say a 26-year-old man, Matthew E. Cunningham, lived in the complex and stabbed his victims with a kitchen knife.
Police say he first killed his 38-year-old roommate, then killed a neighbor, the 28-year-old mother.
According to police he then broke into a second-story apartment where a 20-year-old man and his young wife live. Police say the man was repeatedly stabbed by the suspect but fought back with a baseball bat. When he became too weak, his wife took the bat and swung at Cunningham until he fled their home.
The 20-year-old is in critical condition at Maricopa Medical Center.
Cunningham also is lying in a hospital bed at Maricopa Medical Center, bruised and broken during the struggle.
Names of the victims were not released Wednesday afternoon.
Suspect in brutal murders, stabbing remains in coma
Lindsey Collom
The Arizona Republic
Oct. 15, 2004 12:00 AM
A man accused of killing two people and wounding another in a slashing spree remained in a coma Thursday.
The prognosis is grim for Matthew E. Cunningham, 26, whose brain is swollen from injuries he received when one of the victims and his wife tried to fend him off with a baseball bat, according to police.
One friend said the Ahwatukee Foothills resident he knows wouldn't have been capable of doing what police allege if he were sober
"I would never have expected anything like that from him," said Joe Moutard of Detroit, Cunningham's friend. "That's not the Maddy I knew."
Investigators are looking into the possibility Cunningham was fueled by drugs, namely phencyclidine, or PCP, a psychoactive drug that can cause symptoms mimicking schizophrenia.
"It fits with his bizarre, crazy-man attitude," said Phoenix police Detective Tony Morales.
Morales said Cunningham seemed to have "superhuman strength" when police confronted him Tuesday. Even after the beating, the suspect lowered himself from a second-story apartment and tried to hide from officers. He was subdued with a Taser.
Minutes before, police say Cunningham had a heated argument with his roommate and co-worker, 38-year-old Robert C. Barker, that ended when Barker was repeatedly stabbed with a large kitchen knife.
The next victim was 28-year-old Katharine Spain, mother of a 2-year-old boy and a resident of an adjacent apartment. She died of multiple stab wounds.
A third victim, 20-year-old Gerardo Barrientos, was in good condition Thursday at Maricopa Medical Center. Police said he was stabbed numerous times when Cunningham broke into his apartment but Barrientos fought back with a baseball bat. His wife took over when he became too weak.
Reach the reporter at lindsey.collom@arizonarepublic.com or (602) 444-7983.
School pal recalls suspect
Foothills man accused in slayings lies in coma
Lindsey Collom
The Arizona Republic
Oct. 15, 2004 12:00 AM
The "Maddy" he knew is a man different from the one lying in a coma, the man accused of stabbing two people to death while critically wounding another in an upscale Ahwatukee Foothills apartment complex late Tuesday night.
The Matthew "Maddy" Cunningham that Joe Moutard, of Detroit, knows is a jokester, budding fiction writer, a friend to many.
And so it was with great surprise and sadness that Moutard received the news that police say his childhood friend, Cunningham, 26, went on the slashing spree
Dead are his roommate and co-worker, 38-year-old Robert C. Barker, and Katharine Spain, a 28-year-old mother. A third stabbing victim, 20-year-old Gerardo Barrientos, was in good condition Thursday at Maricopa Medical Center.
That's where Cunningham is hospitalized, his brain swollen from injures he received when Barrientos and his wife tried to fend him off with a baseball bat, police say.
Doctors aren't sure if Cunningham will live.
It may be better if he didn't, Moutard said.
They're harsh words from a man who once considered Cunningham to be a lifelong comrade. They met as classmates of a middle school in a Detroit suburb and remained friends throughout high school, their group still close though some have moved away.
Cunningham, he said, left Michigan several years ago to move in with a high school buddy in Phoenix. He held odd jobs but could have done so much more, Moutard said.
"He was extraordinarily smart, while he never quite applied himself in school, always really ambitious," he said. "At some point, he was hoping to get into the movies, as far as writing screenplays, directing film. He definitely had a talent for telling a story."
At some point, Cunningham had a falling out with his roommate and moved in with Barker, who waited tables at Va Bene. The eatery was steps away from their apartment complex near 48th Street and Chandler Boulevard.
But the two didn't get along well, Moutard said. His friend mentioned that Barker was often depressed, and they tried to stay away from one another. Yet, Cunningham also took a job with Va Bene.
He was working 15 hours a week as a waiter but was looking for more. His employers say that is why Cunningham agreed Tuesday morning to leave Va Bene and seek employment as a limousine driver.
What happened between then and 11:30 p.m. is the subject of neighborhood chatter and police investigation.
Police are looking into the possibility Cunningham was fueled by drugs. Or it could have been a manifestation of grief over his father's death in August. The first answer is most likely, Moutard said, because he said his friend couldn't have been sober and able to do what police allege.
"It's sad that no one could see this coming and get him the help he needed before anything like this could happen," he said. "That's not the Maddy I know, and I'll miss him."