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Electric scooter rider smashes windshield with brick in Lincoln Park

Someone called 911 about 10:40 a.m. to report a person on an electric scooter throwing a brick into the windshield of a parked vehicle in the 2400 block of North Burling Street.

By  Sun-Times Wire
   
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Someone on an electric scooter smashed a parked vehicle’s windshield with a brick July 15, 2019, in Lincoln Park.

Someone on an electric scooter smashed a parked vehicle’s windshield with a brick July 15, 2019, in the 2400 block of North Burling Street.

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Police are investigating after someone on an electric scooter smashed a windshield with a brick Monday in Lincoln Park on the North Side.

Someone called 911 about 10:40 a.m. to report a person on an electric scooter throwing a brick into the windshield of a parked vehicle in the 2400 block of North Burling Street, according to Chicago police.

After breaking the windshield, the suspect rode away southbound on Burling, police said. The person’s age and gender were not immediately known.

A police source said the property damage incident appeared to be domestic in nature.

No one is in custody as Area North detectives investigate.

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