PITTSBURGH — A stolen vehicle was used to crash into the front of a Pittsburgh vape shop before it was burglarized.
Officers were called to Cloud King in the 900 block of Brookline Boulevard shortly before 2:30 a.m. for a burglary alarm going off.
Police said when they arrived, they found the front doors smashed by a vehicle that had been repeatedly driven into the doors.
“They just drove into the building, backed up a second time and then hit it again a third time and then the fourth time they hit the door with the frame and busted it all open,” said a Cloud King manager who didn’t want to be identified.
Video footage from inside the business showed two people inside the car exiting the vehicle, entering the business and stealing an undisclosed amount of cash from the register, a well as merchandise from the store, before fleeing the scene. The suspects left behind the car, which was reported stolen out of Dormont.
Police said both suspects are males and were fully dressed in black clothing.
A patron of the vape shop tells Channel 11 she initially thought the damage to the building was an accident, and couldn’t understand why anyone would do this.
“Everybody comes to this store, everybody; they all love it,” she said. “Somebody broke in and ‘I’m like oh my gosh,’ like that’s crazy because they’re such nice people, like why would anybody do that to them?”
Even though the business has a wooden makeshift door, the manager says they plan on keeping the shop open.
Pittsburgh police continue to investigate.
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