Atlanta police Friday were trying to find the vandals who damaged numerous vehicles at a northwest Atlanta senior living facility.
The incident happened around 1:30 a.m. at Berean Village, a facility operated by Berean Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones said that officers arrived to find nine vehicles with broken windows. Property had been stolen out of three of those vehicles.
The overhang at the entrance to the building was also damaged by a U-Haul truck that might have been driven by the suspects, police said.
Fredrick Russell, pastor of the church that runs the 49-unit complex on Westview Place, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the residents wouldn’t have to worry about having their damaged cars repaired.
“Obviously, we were just devastated at what happened to our residents,” Russell said.
“Our issue today was not financial liability, our issue today was to fix it for our residents,” he said. “Our church is stepping in aggressively to handle this, and we are fixing all of those windows today at our cost.”
Russell said the church was already in the process of making arrangements to install a gate across the entrance to the facility when Friday’s vandalism occurred.
“Of course, the gate is only a deterrent; it does not stop it, because we’re in a high-crime area,” he said.
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