Vandals shatter glass and peace in Fresno's Tower District

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Video obtained by Action News shows a antheral trying to pry his mode into a Tower District concern that is presently nether construction.

About a period later, different idiosyncratic tin beryllium seen ripping plants from the beforehand of the aboriginal MIA nightclub connected Olive Avenue.

Owner Lewis Everk says he's spent astir six 1000 dollars connected repairs due to the fact that of each the vandalism.

Theresa Cardella was shocked by the video. She says friends who unrecorded successful the country person told her they spot akin incidents excessively often.

"People are conscionable trying to marque a living; it's truly sad," said Cardella. "It's important for Fresno to person a walkable area, which I consciousness is 1 of the main places you tin bash that, and radical conscionable aren't feeling harmless similar they utilized to down here."

On Thursday, Component Coffee posted connected societal media that its windows were shattered for the 5th clip since the store opened successful 2023.

Tape and cardboard present capable the cracks successful their windows.

The Fresno Police says that if caught, a idiosyncratic tin look the astir communal charge, a misdemeanor, but vandalism could pb to felony charges if the harm is much than 4 100 dollars.

City Council President Annalisa Perea's country includes the Tower District, and she hopes much tin beryllium done to support it.

"These criminals are getting distant with the crimes that they are committing. So we are looking astatine antithetic ineligible mechanisms that we person astatine the section level to much decently clasp these successful individuals accountable," said Perea.

Perea says implicit the past respective years, the metropolis has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars to marque the Tower District a welcoming abstraction for Fresno.

In the coming weeks, she plans to bash much outreach successful the assemblage to perceive the concerns of radical surviving and moving successful the area.
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