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11 News went to a southeast Houston apartment complex to check out reports of rising crime.

That’s when we saw a group of men running down the street. One of them had a baseball bat.

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11 News was there as a man was beaten with an aluminum baseball bat Wednesday.

HPD sources told 11 News that in order to see the feud up close and personal, just check out the 10900 block of the Gulf Freeway.

We did. And while sitting at a corner listening to police scanners we witnessed four or five men attack another man.

One of them had an aluminum baseball bat and was just hitting him over and over again in the head. He lost a lot of blood.

Our camera was locked up in the back of our SUV and we were out-numbered.  All we could do was back up from the scene and call 911.

A cousin of the victim led the police to an apartment where the injured man had been taken.

She then led police to the men that allegedly committed the crime.

One of them, we later learned, was charged with attempted homicide.

HPD crime statistics for this area are troublesome, to say the least.

From May through July there has been a murder, 11 robberies, 22 aggravated assaults, 26 burglaries, 3 burglaries of a motor vehicle,

25 auto thefts and 15 narcotics arrests.

Narcotics seemed to be the root of the major assault Wednesday.

“A lot of it on the ground is happening for the battle of drug turf. For the battle of who is controlling certain spots and certain areas. It is unfortunate that we in leadership. Many have ignored the problem,” said community activist Quannel X.

A problem, evacuees said, that is growing because they can’t find jobs. They’re losing their apartments and they are being discriminated against, they said.

“There must be a summit called between black people from New Orleans and Houston to stop the madness, stop the conflict,” Quannel X said.

Ironically, police believe it was a woman who came into the neighborhood in a cab, looking for cocaine that started the conflict today.

That’s when dealers became angry, police said, and why the attack happened.