Vandalism Costs Restaurant Thousands

By Emory Bryan, The News On 6

TULSA, OK - A small business sustains a hard hit.  A man vandalized the outside of a Tulsa restaurant while traffic drove by.  The owner of the restaurant got a call about the windows being broken out and she immediately checked a surveillance camera inside.  It captured some video of what happened and it may be enough to find the man who did it.

The new coffee shop, called Alisee Momo, is an attempt to make something of an old corner building in Whittier Square.  The menu is trendy and the manager says it was beginning to catch on.

"We were doing really well until all this, and it really hurt us," said Alisee Momo manager Brenda Carson.

Sunday morning before last, a man walked up with a bat and smashed their windows.

"Every last one of the windows was busted out," said Alisee Momo manager Brenda Carson.

He circled the outside twice, breaking the windows.  The burglar alarm didn't sound because he didn't go inside.  He didn't take anything.  But, he left plenty of damage.

The suspect broke out every single window and didn't seem to care that cars were driving by.  The loss was in the thousands of dollars, enough to threaten the very survival of the business.

"These windows cost $5,000 and it really hurt us bad," said Alisee Momo manager Brenda Carson.

The owner thinks she recognized the man in the video, but police are still investigating and haven't made an arrest.

While that work continues, Carson hopes to get back to the business of attracting people to this corner, with a catchy name, a changing menu and lots of new windows.