EXCLUSIVE: Shooting of 28 Windows at 18 Businesses in Downtown Orlando by Alleged Drive-By Shooter

EXCLUSIVE: 7:50pm Monday January 11, 2016

By Mark Baratelli

This story is developing. Check back for more.

UPDATE: 1/12/16: Just 4 days prior to this event, 4 car windows were shot out in Baldwin Park with what police say could be pellet guns. READ MORE HERE

Over the weekend, more than 28 windows of Downtown Orlando businesses were shot at by what the Orlando Police Department believe to be a person or persons driving a car.

Orlando Police Department arrived on the scene at 5:16am Monday morning and filed a report saying a "suspect(s) possibly used a pellet gun to damage the windows as they drove past the businesses."

Most of the windows shattered completely, forcing the businesses to cover the windows with wood.

The windows belonged to small and large businesses along Colonial, Orange Blossom Trail and Orange Aves.

The event happened sometime this weekend.

We collected and created this list of victims:

Firehouse Subs - 2217 E Colonial Drive Orlando, FL 32803 5 windows
Helmly Mattress Warehouse - 62 West Colonial Drive Orlando, FL 32801 - 4 windows
Nix & Black Automotive - 421 N. Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, FL - 3 windows
General Consulate of Haiti in Orlando - 1616 E Colonial Drive Orlando, 32803 - 3 windows
Orlando Ballet - 2211 N. Orange Ave, Orlando, FL - 3 windows
Forever Beautiful Tattoo - 1809 E Colonial Drive Orlando, FL 32801 1 window
Vision Max - 1020 E Colonial Drive Orlando, FL 32803
Saigon Market - 1021 E Colonial Drive Orlando, FL 32801 1 window
Ngoc Thu Jewelry 1240 E Colonial Dr Orlando, FL 1 window
Lynn Fashion Alterations & Chinese Dresses 1244 E. Colonial Dr. 1 window
Snap! Orlando - 1013 E Colonial Drive Orlando, FL 32803 1 window
Plus Skate House - 1646 E Colonial Drive Orlando, FL 32803 3 windows
Game Stop - 2907 E Colonial Dr Orlando, FL 32803 - 1 window
Sprint - 3021 E Colonial Dr , Orlando, FL 32803 -1 window
Bikkluri Sushi Noodle & Grill - 1915 Colonial Drive Orlando, FL 32803
vacant building - 212 E Colonial Drive Orlando, FL 32801
vacant building - 10 W Colonial Drive Orlando, FL 32803
Little One Pediatrics - 810 E Colonial Drive Orlando, FL 32801

The case narrative inside the police report written by Officer Douglas Cote at 5:16am on Monday January 11th states as follows:

On 1/11/2016, I, Officer Cote (16904), responded to the E Colonial Dr for multiple windows and doors to business that have been shattered.
When I arrived on scene, there were multiple business that had their windows broken. It does not appear that any entry was made to the businesses. It appears the suspect(s) possibly used a pellet gun to damage the windows as they drove past the businesses. There were no independent witness or access to any camera systems.
Made contact with Mike Rhodes with Code Enforcement responded to the scene to board up all windows.

One of the businesses not listed on this police report was Nix + Black Automotive, located on Orange Blossom Trail across the street from the Parliament House. On Monday afternoon, the owner of the automotive shop said 8 other businesses had called into the police regarding shattered windows prior to him calling in Saturday morning around 7:30am about the same thing.

He said at the time of his call, police hadn't decided if the damage was caused by a 22 or a pellet rifle.

No illegal activity's captured by the automotive shops security cameras. The cost of the repair will be $1,200 per window. His damage included one fully shattered window and two with bullet-style marks. The marks were near the top of the two windows.

Monday we spoke with a window repairman who's business card we found wedged inside the door frame of Snap! Orlando, a locally-owned photo and art gallery. He first heard about the damaged windows on Saturday at 1pm.

He said in the 20 years he's been doing glass repair, he's "never seen a worse case of vandalism." He said that day alone he'd already been in contact with 13 small businesses about 28 shattered windows and a second company, Fox Glass, had answered calls from 6 businesses.

He believed the weapon used in the damaging of all these windows was a CO2-powered gun.

He said he spoke with the owner of Plus One Skate Shop, one of the businesses that had its windows shot out, and the owner told him the same thing happened a month prior. A white car was captured on camera during that event a month ago as well as during the event this weekend.