The Brief
- A woman armed with bricks smashed windows and doors at 8-Ball Lounge in Sarasota County early Thursday morning, surveillance video shows.
- The suspect wearing a motorcycle helmet went inside the local neighborhood bar, where she destroyed liquor bottles and cut herself in the process.
- Deputies are actively working to locate the woman while the business cleans up thousands of dollars in damage.
SARASOTA, Fla. – A woman wearing a motorcycle helmet went on a rampage of destruction at a Sarasota County business early Thursday morning, throwing bricks through windows and doors before destroying the bar’s liquor inventory, according to surveillance footage and the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office.
Sarasota bar attack
What we know:
Investigators say the unprovoked attack unfolded minutes before 4 a.m. at 8-Ball Lounge, a neighborhood bar located off Webber Street in the Southgate area. Surveillance video captured a woman pulling up in a car, unloading bricks and throwing them directly through the business’s windows and doors.
Once inside, the mayhem continued as she targeted the bar area.
“There was like 35 to 40 bottles on the bar, she destroyed everything,” 8-Ball Lounge owner Michael Calomeris said. “There’s glass everywhere.”
Liquor damage
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