Police have been searching for whoever was responsible for leaving a backpack full of live mortar shells inside a Murfreesboro apartment complex.
"They found live ammo that could have went off and destroyed anything, and then y'all are like 'don't worry about it,'" said William Lewis.
Multiple law enforcement agencies thoroughly searched the Ashwood Cove apartments in Murfreesboro Wednesday after a maintenance worker found a backpack full of live explosives next to the dumpster.
"At first I downplayed it. I was like, alright whatever, but when they told us everything was real we were like, oh, so if it would have actually went off it would have been real bad," said Lewis.
Five live mortar shells and a training grenade were found inside that backpack, just feet away from the neighborhood playground.
Special Operations bomb tech Tennessee Highway Patrol Troopers transported the explosives to an area where Fort Campbell soldiers could safely detonate the explosives.
But Ashwood Cove management has been telling residents a different story.
In a letter sent to the residents, Ashwood Cove management stated, "All reports have come back to us and in spite what the news has said, none of them were live."
Lewis said he woke up to the letter at his front door Saturday morning, three days after the potential bomb threat.
That has left residents uncertain if they can trust their own management and hoping police can find the culprit who left the backpack full of live explosives next to the neighborhood playground.
"They're trying to tell us not to worry about it. If you don't want us not to worry about it, you should have told us the truth first off, but this doesn't make us feel good at all," said Lewis.
NewsChannel 5 has reached out to Ashwood Cove management for a comment, but as of Saturday evening, no one had returned our phone calls.
