FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - A vandal busted a window with a chunk of cement, and police said this isn’t the only business he hit.
The windows of several storefronts were broken, and Fort Lauderdale Police hope that footage will lead them to a break in the case.
“He looked crazy, you know, upset,” said Exotic Eyewear owner Panos Sarris.
Over and over, a man hurled a block of cement at the security camera outside of the Exotic Eyewear Store on North Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale.
The owner of the store told 7News he has no idea why.
“You know, going off on the camera like he had something against the camera,” said Sarris.
Sarris said he realized something had happened when he came to work Tuesday morning and found his camera in pieces. By looking at the video, he discovered that the man didn’t seem to have a car, was carrying a flashlight and started throwing a rock at the Ruth’s Chris Steak House next door.
The restaurant’s window cracked, but the rock never really broke through the windows.
He also saw something else in the video as to why he said he is not taking the vandalism personally.
“The first thing that I saw was that he was walking towards Verizon, he was holding a flashlight, had a backpack,” said Sarris.
Minutes later, the camera recorded a clear view of his face as he pitched the rock over and over and at some point also hit a window of the Verizon shop next door.
Sarris said he has never seen this man before.
“I don’t think he’s well in his mind. I don’t think there is anything against him or the restaurant. I think it was very circumstantial what happened,” said Sarris. “He’s just a guy, he wants to make some damage to pick some kind of, you know, fight his demons, one way or another.”
Sarris is thankful, however, that perhaps the man fighting his demons — if that’s what it was — did not hurt anyone.
“I think people get too stressed, they go over the verge, so it’s like, it is what it is,” said Sarris.
If you know who this man is, or may have seen him, you are urged to call the Fort Lauderdale Police Department.
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