A single mom raising two daughters in University Heights is now in fear for her life after unknowingly moving into a former drug den. She only learned of the apartment’s checkered history after someone fired four shots through her second-floor window.

The mother, who does not want to be identified for fear of retaliation, woke up to the sounds of gunfire through her window on University Avenue, near West Kingsbridge Road, at 2:45 a.m. on May 30.

Following the shooting, the startled mother and her 11-month-old and 9-year-old daughters huddled on the floor until police arrived.

“The family was in the room and everybody was sleeping,” as four shots crashed through the window, the mother recalled.  

Police would later remove three slugs from the window bars. One shot hit the apartment’s ceiling.

The woman said she moved into the building about a year and a half ago. Before that, she says, “crack dealers in this apartment ran the building.” Residents have since told her about, “Ramon,” who sold crack out of the apartment she now calls home.

Numerous attempts to contact the landlord of the building to ask how they could rent a former drug den to a single mother of two daughters, without letting her know, were unsuccessful.

Police did not respond to several inquiries about the incident and the apartment.