3 Cars Windows Mysteriously Shattered In Separate But Consecutive Incidents
AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) - Within about two-and-a-half hours during the early morning Wednesday, three cars had their passenger windows shattered within a block of each other in Aurora. Police believe the incidents are related.
Aurora police said the first call came in around 12:40 a.m. on Wednesday, the second happened around 2:03 a.m., and the third just before 3 a.m. The incidents were separate, but all occurred while the vehicles were traveling eastbound on East Hampden Avenue near South Buckley Road.
Each car had a passenger window struck, two were shattered and one was completely blown out. No injuries were reported but police believe the incidents are frightening because if it happens while someone is driving, it could create a chain reaction of crashes.
Investigators don't believe the windows were struck by a firearm. No evidence was found at the scene.
"We had our firearms expert look at it and it looks like it's just a small projectile. We don't know, at this point, what it is," said Aurora Police spokeswoman Judy Lutkin. "It could be a BB gun, it could be an air soft gun."
Police say the intersection in question has traffic cameras that will likely be used in the investigation.
Amber Grobe lives near the intersection and said police told her that based on where the vehicles appeared to have been hit, the possible culprits may have been in her yard.
"I wish I would have gotten up and looked out the window when my dog went crazy," said Grobe. "He heard someone in the yard or close by... that's what he's been trained to do."
She fears if someone was behind the shattered window incidents, what's to stop them from hitting a home.
"If you're going to shoot through a car window, I have windows in my house with kids in it, my neighbors just had a baby... you just don't mess with it," said Grobe.
The cause is still unclear, but once investigators determine what happened, they'll determine whether there is a connection to previous incidents of car windows shattering, including one on Interstate 25 just a day earlier.
"It is a concern of ours because had it been a different time of day it could have scared someone enough to cause a collision," said Lutkin.
Right now, investigators said they won't reach out to the task force in Larimer County until they determine what caused the shattered windows. They do believe with the timing and location of the shattered windows that the three incidents are related.
