“That fat b----. I’ll punch her right in her stomach,” said 11-year-old D., his hand on his hip.

D. is sitting on the curb Tuesday night, watching a tenuous scene unfold. It all started with an 8-year-old flashing a body part to another child, but it swiftly became an all-out brawl between two families. Within minutes, 50 residents swarmed the courtyard.

Eight Aurora police officers arrive at the housing complex on Aurora’s West Side, and D.’s 15-year-old brother is carted off in an ambulance with his mother.

After the scene subsides, the residents go back into their apartments. D. sits on the sidewalk alone, playing shirtless with his toy motorcycle. It’s the coolest night yet in August, but tensions are running high at Jericho Circle.

The question was on the minds of folks in the mayor’s office and the Aurora Housing Authority this week. Would Letitia Mendenhall wait until the last possible second — until the sheriff’s department came?

Mendenhall — mother of seven, commonly called “Miss Tish” around the Jericho Circle Public Housing complex — was eviction case 12LM99 on Thursday. She indeed did wait for Kane County sheriff’s deputies to show up at her door to remove her from her apartment.

Mendenhall spent 14 years at the complex on Jericho Road, which is slated to be torn down after years of disrepair. Five of her children still live with her.

For awhile, Mendenhall, who is undergoing chemotherapy for cervical cancer, thought she might be saved by a different number — housing voucher #21, which would help her find another home.