Vandals smash out car windows in Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis

Vandals smash out car windows in Linden Hills neighborhood of MinneapolisVandals smash out car windows in Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis

Residents in Minneapolis’ Linden Hills neighborhood awoke to shattered car windows Wednesday morning in a vandalism spree similar to other recent incidents in the Twin Cities.

Our 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS camera saw people sweep up glass on Linden Hills Boulevard near 40th Avenue West. Neighbors we spoke to say the vandals seem to have hit the whole block.

“Came out to go to work and it looks like every window along the street — driver’s side — were all smashed in,” said Colin Schroeder, a Linden Hills resident. “Nothing appears to be taken, just some vandalism of some sort.”

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Henry Paton’s car was broken into two days before he was set to leave for college. He said he lost some valuables that he “probably could have used down there.”

“I woke up and saw a photo that my car right there had been smashed in the window, and my stuff was taken. I’m pretty upset,” Paton said.

As previously reported, there were over 200 reports of smashed-out windows across the metro last month, including in northeast Minneapolis and near Mall of America in Bloomington.
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