The complex has a tall fence separating its 288 residents from the off-campus neighborhood, but the apartments have no gates or surveillance cameras.
Resident Omer Soysal said attempted break-ins and holdups are common at the apartments, where nearly all the residents are international students.
``When it is dark, I tell my kids: 'Don't go outside,''' said Soysal, 37.
In Hyderabad, India, Allam's grief-stricken father said Saturday that his son sounded happy when they spoke earlier in the week.
``It's unbelievable that my son is no more,'' Rajaiah Allam said before boarding a flight to his U.S., where his wife and two daughters were already visiting the student.
Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma recently told his family that he was getting job offers, and also had recently married, said his brother K. Srinivas Reddy.
``Heavens have fallen on us. We never thought that such a tragedy is in store for us when everything looked so bright and promising,'' Srinivas Reddy said.
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