 On August 17, 2006, Masumi Hayashi and her neighbor, the 51-year-old artist and sculptor John Jackson were shot to death by Jacob Cifelli, a 29-year-old neighbor in their apartment building on Detroit Avenue in Cleveland's Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, after she had complained to Cifelli about his loud music, which she had endured, and complained about, for months.Jackson (who also worked as a maintenance man at the apartment complex) was slain while attempting to assist Hayashi after she was shot.Cefili received a life sentence for the murders.