Someone broke a large storefront window at a hardware store owned by Anniston’s mayor Wednesday morning, but police so far have more questions than answers.
An Anniston police officer on downtown patrol around 2 a.m. Wednesday noticed a broken front window at the Western Auto hardware store in the 1000 block of Noble Street.
“There was no rock or other object, and no indication of how the window was broken,” said police Lt. Rocky Stemen. “We informed the store owner, and he stayed on the scene until the site was secured.”
The “store owner” is Anniston Mayor Gene Robinson.
“I was up all night because of this, but that’s just part of owning a small business,” said Robinson, who went to the store to stand guard until he could get a sheet of plywood in place to replace the glass.
Stemen said nothing was stolen from the store. Police are investigating the incident as an act of criminal mischief, he said.
“We really don’t know what happened or how the window was smashed,” he said.
But Robinson is convinced that the window was smashed by “a bunch of kids” who regularly ride up and down Noble shooting windows with a BB gun or pellet rifle. He said he and other business owners have noticed pock-marks in windows from previous pellet gun attacks.
“When I was their age, I was throwing eggs, not shooting out windows,” he said. “I guess it was foreshadowing for what was to come.”
Source:-http://www.annistonstar.com/view/full_story/10816923/article-Window-of-Anniston-mayor%E2%80%99s-business-broken?instance=breakingnews
