VANDALS ARMED WITH PELLET GUN SHOOT OUT WINDOWS OF PARKED CARS.Byline: Josh Kleinbaum Staff Writer Gracie Gates thought she heard a car driving over a glass bottle. Alana Rubens thought her neighbor was banging the lid on his trash cans. Yolanda Garrett didn't hear a thing, sleeping through the vandalism that hit two neighborhoods late Wednesday. All three spent Thursday morning trying to fix the driver's-side window of their cars, which were among more than a dozen shattered shat·ter v. shat·tered, shat·ter·ing, shat·ters v.tr. 1. To cause to break or burst suddenly into pieces, as with a violent blow. 2. a. by vandals armed with a pellet gun a gun that fires small pellets, less than 3 mm diameter, usually made of metal. See also: Pellet . ``We heard a 'pop' sound at about 10:30 (Wednesday night),'' said Gates, who lives on Lennox Avenue, just south of the Ventura Freeway The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California running from Ventura to Pasadena. It is the principal east-west route through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County. . ``Five minutes after it happened, we went out to make sure, and we saw that somebody shot out our window.'' The window on Gates' black Mercedes S500 did not shatter - instead, it looked like a spider's web, with cracks spreading out from a small hole in the bottom right-hand corner of the window. Police believe vandals used a pellet gun to shoot the windows of more than a dozen cars on Lennox Avenue, Hortense Street, Sylmar Avenue and Longview Valley Road. ``It doesn't take much to break this glass,'' said Tony Belloso from Glass Doctor, who was repairing the window on Rubens' Toyota Sienna Not to be confused with Toyota Sienta. The Toyota Sienna is a minivan built in the United States for the North American market, and shares its platform and engine with the Toyota Camry. on Longview Valley. ``It's tempered glass, and it reacts with the metal.'' Repairing a broken window costs about $250, varying a little by car, Belloso said. With no witnesses and few leads, police asked the public for help. ``Right now, all we have is that around 11 o'clock, people heard glass breaking, and they went out to investigate and found their car windows broken,'' Van Nuys Area Capt. James Miller James Miller may refer to any of the following individuals:
The vandalism took place just over 24 hours after an annoyed Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. man shot a car with a blaring alarm, but police say the Sherman Oaks incident is a simple vandalism case, not a copy-cat act. ``We periodically get young kids that get ahold of a pellet gun and think it's great sport to go drive around shooting out windows,'' Miller said. ``We haven't had one of these in a while, but they do periodically happen.'' Josh Kleinbaum, (818) 713-3669 josh.kleinbaum(at)dailynews.com --Anyone with information on vandalism should call the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . at (818) 756-8377. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: David Jacobs David Henry Jacobs (born April 30, 1888 in Cardiff, Wales - died June 6, 1976 in Aberconwy, Wales), was a British athlete. At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Jacobs won a gold medal as the first leg in the British 4x100 m relay team, in spite of finishing second is framed by the broken window of his car in front of his Longview Valley Road home in Sherman Oaks, where vandals hit several parked autos Wednesday night. Tom Mendoza/Staff Photographer |
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