Police are looking for a woman who they say vandalized more than a dozen cars in Bulls Head. NY1's Anthony Pascale has the story.
A brazen act caught on camera: surveillance video shows a woman going on a vandalism spree in Bulls Head, damaging cars up and down the street. One of them belonged to 88-year-old Marion Longo.
"9 o’clock in the morning, I went down stairs, I want to get the newspaper, I open the door," she said, gasping. "I say, 'Wow, my car had two tires that were slashed.'"
Along with the damaged tires, she found scratches all over the hood, body, and windshield of her car.
Police said it happened around 10:30 p.m. Monday within a four block radius from Lamberts to Caswell Lanes.
Resident Eli Ozana said the suspect damaged more than a dozen vehicles.
"I was cutting my lawn and then my neighbor next door he actually told me, he goes, 'My car got slashed and cut!'" Ozana recalled. "I said, 'What?' and he goes, 'Yeah, everybody's car did.' I said, 'What?'"
More surveillance video shows the woman taking a sharp object and repeatedly scratching Ozana's black Volkswagen Jetta.
Ozana said fixing it will take weeks and cost more than $5,000.
"She actually went and scratched the hood and then she started trying to slash my tires. I guess she wasn't successful at that," Ozana said. "She scratched the whole side of the car, scratched the quarter panel, and then just kept moving on to the next car."
Frustrated neighbors want the female slasher caught before she strikes again.
"Its just one of those things that I want to know who did it because I feel like she is in the neighborhood; we just don't know who," Ozana said.
"You know, I can’t understand why she did it. Why would she scratch cars?" added Longo.
Anyone with information on the woman is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-8477.