LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. — Just a week and a half after more than 75 cars were vandalized with an air rifle, police reported another three dozen vehicles targeted overnight on Tuesday.
From shattered windows to dents, police said 35 cars suffered damage in the latest spree of vandalism.
Multiple neighbors told 41 Action News that several cars were targeted in the Stoney Creek and Napa Valley neighborhoods.
One resident said she knew something was wrong when she and her husband were awakened by a car alarm early Tuesday morning.
“When I was looking out the window, I heard a car speed up the street so I knew something was going on,” explained Heather Morgan. “(My husband) noticed his back passenger window was busted out and glass was all over the ground."
Morgan showed 41 Action News the damage done to her family’s two cars.
Her husband’s pickup truck, which was bought just two days before the crime, had to get a window replaced following the vandalism.
Her son’s pickup truck also had a rear window shot out.
Both cars had backups stolen from the inside.
“It gets you in a kind of bitter angerness. You're mad,” she explained. “Kind of makes you sleep uneasily at night knowing that there's people out there trying to break into your vehicles."
The crime spree came just over a week after more than 75 cars were targeted in a similar vandalism case.
During the early morning hours of Oct. 21, police said cars were targeted in the eastern and southwestern parts of the city.
One of the cars included Christopher Hoffman’s family pickup truck.
“I didn't notice my window until that following Monday,” he explained. “I was irritable. I was just mad."
Pictures Hoffman took on his phone showed a driver side window shattered by a BB.
Hoffman, who lives in the Maple Estates neighborhood, told 41 Action News that repairing the window ended up costing him around $100.
“I had to call around and find the window. I even went down to the salvage yard trying to pick one up,” he explained. “It's expensive. I have to pay to get it re-tinted to match the tint. It's a pest."
Hoffman said the car has been with his family for five years and his children were worried following the crime.
“They were heartbroken,” he explained. “They were like, ‘Now, Dad has to sink more money into it. Now, we can't buy certain Halloween stuff that we wanted to get.’”
As of Tuesday night, police had not found anyone responsible for the vandalized cars.
An investigator told 41 Action News that police were looking into a possible connection between the two crime sprees.
After the first spree of vandalism on Oct. 21, investigators said they were looking for a 1980s gray Lincoln Town Car and three white teenagers possibly connected to the crimes.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Lee’s Summit Police Department at (816) 969-1700.
