Drive-By Vandals Break Antelope Valley Windows

Drive-by vandals went on an overnight window-breaking rampage in the Antelope Valley, damaging about 100 businesses, vehicles and houses in Palmdale, Lancaster and Quartz Hill, sheriff’s deputies said Monday.

Calls from people whose windows had been shattered, apparently by one or more BB guns fired from a moving vehicle, began at 9 p.m. Sunday and continued well into the next day, deputies said.

“We’re still interviewing victims,” Sgt. Bob Denham said Monday afternoon. “In fact, we’re still getting calls.”

Although no injuries were reported, local business owners said it will cost them hundreds or thousands of dollars to replace the windows--an expense that often is not covered by insurance.

Deputies made no immediate arrests. “Usually, it turns out to be juveniles on a random rampage of vandalism,” Denham said.

The damage was familiar to Julie Burroughs, manager of a Round Table Pizza shop on Palmdale Boulevard. The previous night, vandals had destroyed a window facing the street.

“This is our fifth time this year,” she said. “They just drive by and shoot the windows out. I have some regulars who avoid the windows now and sit on the other side.”