Vandals Hit Streets Of North Texas With BB Guns
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FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) - North Texas police looking to compare notes after vandals armed with a pellet or BB gun shattered dozens of car windows over the weekend.
A neighbor alerted Adrienne Pace in Corinth. "We got a `ding dong' at our door," says Pace, "somebody said your window has been shot out." "We're like 'nooo, not in our neighborhood'. And I'll be darned. Our window had been shot out."
The Paces joined a growing list of victims from Fort Worth to Carrollton in the past two weeks. Similar attacks have been reported since last month in Austin and near Houston as well.
"It makes me angry that people think it's a game," says Pace. "It makes me angry, somebody could have been in that car… we have kids that run around in the neighborhood. It makes me very angry."
Police in Carrollton say some 43 vehicles had their windows shattered in that city Friday night in Saturday morning. Officers have turned to social media to appeal to residents to check surveillance systems in the hope that the suspects may have been captured on videotape.
But, in Corinth, the vandals didn't stop with vehicles. A window of a house was shattered as well. Police officials there say say the department is taking the destruction seriously.
"They don't know what's on the other side of that window," says Lt. Jimmie Gregg, spokesperson for the Corinth Police Dept. "What if someone's sleeping on the other side of that window? It could have been a crib."
"That blows my mind," adds Pace. "We have to do something. That cannot happen. We have to do something… we all need to join together and do something."
Carrollton police plan to go door to door in targeted neighborhoods tomorrow looking for homeowners that might have surveillance video to share.
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