Small piles of broken glass still covered the street when Lara Mord walked out of her apartment complex in northeast Minneapolis this week and discovered her son’s car was one of many broken into as part of a citywide spree.
“I’m very frustrated; there was no reason for it,” said Mord, who lives in the Laker apartment building at NE. 2nd Street and Lowry Avenue.
Dozens of vehicles in various Minneapolis neighborhoods had their windows smashed during back-to-back overnight sprees, Minneapolis police said. Many of the vehicles were burglarized.
The vandalism occurred under the cover of darkness Monday into Tuesday and again Tuesday into Wednesday.
“Investigators are working diligently to collect information about the incidents and to locate and identify suspects,” said police spokesman Trevor Folke. “Dozens of vehicles had windows damaged and/or were broken into.”
Mord, who lives with her husband and son, said there have been sporadic issues with car break-ins over the past year, but none of this magnitude. One resident’s car was previously stolen three times in the span of a couple of months, she said.
By Wednesday morning, many more cars parked to the south of Lowry Avenue on 2nd Street had their windows broken.
Cory Bock, another resident whose SUV’s window was broken south of Lowry Avenue, said the suspects rifled through his center console and threw things around, but didn’t steal anything.
