"I first of all thought 'Was that a gun?'," she said. "Then I heard a lot of shouting and more fainter bangs of the same sort then the sound of a window breaking. It sounded like someone was hitting something really hard, like a tin fence or a car bonnet. It only lasted a few minutes but it was enough to keep me awake for a couple of hours.
"There was a lot of traffic up and down the street over the next hour or so which could have been the police. It's a really noisy neighbourhood - there's always something going on around here."