MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Crime tape sat in trash cans a day after a man was severely beaten.

“We’re sharing tears, not happiness right now,” a woman, who only wanted to be identified as Mary, said.

Loved ones found it hard to have a happy Father’s Day after learning Steve Baldwin was dead.

“He got two sons. Now, they ain’t got no father no more,” Mary told WREG.

Baldwin was beaten to death with a crowbar Saturday.

“Jumping on him, spitting on him, beating on him. This man didn’t do nothing,” she said.

Witnesses said Baldwin, a landlord, was in the middle of evicting some people when the tenants allegedly stole his electricity meter.

“Yes. This was off. None of this,” Neil McClinton said.

The suspects got away as several people rushed in to help.

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“He losing blood, oxygen. We’re trying to revive him. He went — and no pulse,” Darnita Lewis said.

Police said they first got the first 911 call at 4:50 p.m.

MPD alerted officers about the crime at 4:51 p.m. and again at 4:56 p.m.

An officer was dispatched to Scottsdale Avenue at 5:01 p.m. and made the scene at 5:11 p.m.

That was a 21-minute response time, but witnesses said it took police about 40 to 45 minutes just to get to the scene.

“They did not arrive on the scene at 5:11. It was like 5:20. It was like 5:28, 5:20 something,” Lewis told WREG.

Witnesses showed WREG their phone logs which revealed police did, in fact, get calls around 4:50 p.m.

However, neighbors said it took much longer than 21 minutes for officers to arrive.

“He would be alive if they would have came sooner. Yes. He would’ve been alive. His family would be seeing him today,” Mary said.

Police sources said it is not clear how the call was first classified or prioritized.

It is important to note officers in the area were investigating the death on Cottonwood a few miles away at the same time.