ATLANTA - Terrence and Nketia Martin came home from spending a Labor Day with relatives to find their house had been firebombed. <br>
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A brick and a Molotov cocktail were thrown into the baby's bedroom, and the blaze destroyed the family's home. <br>
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Authorities have not made any arrests but the Martins said police could have saved their two-story house. They called police Friday with the name and license plate number of the person they think did it. <br>
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``I am in shock by this. What kind of people would firebomb my children's bedroom? They knew that was my children's room,'' Nketia Martin said. <br>
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The Martins said they have been calling police for years about drug dealers and prostitutes in the East Lake neighborhood of about 1,000 homes. <br>
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Recently, when police hauled off three neighbors, a rail-thin woman in a passing car yelled: ``We're going to get you,'' Martin said. <br>
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When she saw the woman again Friday, Martin called police but didn't get a response. She said she had seen the woman before at the neighbor's house. <br>
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DeKalb police didn't return phone calls seeking comment Wednesday. <br>
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Some residents blame inefficient policing just outside the city of Atlanta's border for holding their neighborhood back. <br>
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But that won't stop them from calling 911 again, Martin said. <br>
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The Martins plan to rebuild the home, which has been in their family for three generations. <br>
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``If we don't do anything about it, no one will,'' Martin said. ``We can't let people run us out of the neighborhood because they're doing wrong.'' <br>
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The DeKalb County neighborhood has undergone a rebirth of sorts, with a restored golf course, charter school and several renovation and construction projects for homes in the area.
