HOUSTON, Texas -- Bullets were flying and blood was flowing on a Southwest Houston street early Monday. When the shooting stopped, one man was dead, another wounded.

It was an all-too-familiar scene for residents who live along Club Creek, a one-mile stretch of road between Beechnut and Bissonnet in the Westwood Subdivision. Cops call it one of the most dangerous streets in Houston.

In fact, if you were to line up all the crime reports taken on Club Creek over the last few years, they would likely stretch further than the street itself.

Murders, rapes, robberies, drug busts. One woman was even set on fire.

Club Creek is a high density area lined with apartment complexes where your first month's rent is free and a one bedroom can be had for just $350.

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Cops call Club Creek Drive one of the most dangerous streets in Houston.

The apartment complexes were built in the late '70s and early 80s when Houston was a boomtown and people were moving here from all over the country to find work.

But times have changed. Now drug dealers, gangs and some deadbeat apartment owners run the show on Club Creek.

"The landlords who own the complexes, in many cases, are not here," said Terrence Gray with Higher Dimension Church. "And they really don't care about or maintain the properties and you've got good people living in some bad conditions."

Gray said the church is building a nearby youth center to provide activities and hope. They received a couple of government grants to help pay for the project.

Gray hopes giving youngsters a safe haven from the crime will help lead them down the right path before they, too, become just another crime stat on Club Creek.