Joan Elder had one of her windows damaged, while her husband’s car had three. She said she’s spent a lot of time on the phone with her insurance company since the incident trying to straighten things out.
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“It’s costly to do these repairs and it’s also very time consuming,” she said. “It’s not very convenient — it’s a disruption.”
On Tuesday, her window was repaired while she was at work, but her husband’s car will have to wait until Friday to be fixed.
She said along South Fountain Avenue alone, she saw 10 of her neighbor’s cars that were hit. Kevin Rose lives two blocks north of Elder. His mother’s and sister-in-law’s vehicles were also shot at.
Rose said the vandalism has upset a lot of people in the neighborhood.
“Thankfully my wife and I are able to absorb this, he said. “You’re able to replace the windows, but I know that a mother up the street was crying because she doesn’t have the ability to replace her window. It’s $200 to $300 every time you need to replace a window and for a single, working mom as she is — it hits a lot harder than it even does for us.”
In surveillance video provided by a neighbor, you can see a car quickly drive by a line of cars on the street followed by two popping noises.
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But the damage wasn’t exclusive to just S. Fountain Ave. People made reports to police on many side streets including Sunset Avenue, East Third Street, Rice Street and East Southern Avenue.
Melissa Kay, an East Southern Avenue resident, had a back window in her van shot out. She was sleeping on Friday night when her neighbors woke her up to tell her what happened.
She said she doesn’t meet her insurance deductible, so the cost of a new window will have to come out of her own pocket.
“It’s frustrating when you have to go to the bank and get the money and have to go lay it out at a car shop versus paying a bill that needs to be paid or putting food in your house,” she said.
She also mentioned concerns about if one of the BB gun pellets misfired.
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“There’s kids that run all through the neighborhood. If it misses a car window and goes through your house window — who says it won’t hurt somebody in the house,” she said.
Joe Winget, one of the owners of The Glass Shop of Ohio on Selma Road said his small staff of three employees has been working overtime to keep up with the flood of repairs since the weekend.
Over the last few days, the shop has repaired more than 20 vehicles.
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