Tenants at Monticello Meadows Apartments are not putting full blame on complex management for another murder here.

Debra Benders -- who was visiting her mother Tuesday afternoon -- said she believes poverty and addiction lead to incidents like what happened this past weekend.

Police said Howard Sanders, 19, shot and killed Lawrence Burns, also 19, just before 4 a.m. Sunday inside Unit 30. They also said Burns was found outside the apartment with multiple gunshots to the head. 

Neither the victim, nor the suspect, lived there. Sanders is from neighboring Loch Sheldrake and Burns was from Brooklyn, according to a press release from Monticello Police.

"I don't know what the issue is," Benders said of a string of incidents at the complex. "But one thing I do know 100% is that there are no decent and appropriate places to live here in Sullivan County."

A tenant in Unit 30, Gerrod Lucas, 22, was also arrested. Police said crack cocaine was found in the apartment during a search.

Monticello Meadows has changed management, and set some new rules -- including a curfew -- due to other incidents. One of those was an apparent murder of an elderly female tenant in August 2017.

In response to these instances of violence and poor living conditions, management was changed, and Monticello Meadows pledged to do better by updating units, closely screening applicants and building a community room.

"That [positive results] remains to be seen, because they're still working on the complex," Monticello Mayor Gary Sommers said Tuesday.

Sommers said he is not as concerned aboyut property management as he is about the local job market. He said theft and violence are more common when opportunities are few.

"The problem is that there are no jobs for that middle range," Sommers said. "If you can't pass a test to get your license with the state to work in the casino, what other jobs do we have here? You really have no jobs of consequence."

Police have not said much about the circumstances, since the murder is still under investigation. Several neighbors, though, said there was a "gathering" at Unit 30 prior to the shooting.

Complex management declined comment, except to say they are trying "to get back to normal."