A car crashed through the window at upscale North Hills restaurant Cucciolo Terrazza near the end of dinner service Saturday, July 12 night.
“It was like a bomb went off,” owner Jimmy Kim says he was told by workers inside. “It was a very loud bang.”
What happened to Cucciolo Terrazza?
The crash happened around 10 p.m., near the entrance to a parking garage and Cucciolo’s side patio. Raleigh Police charged Leigh Anna Gillila Ligon with driving while impaired.
Kim was halfway home for the night when someone called him to come back to the restaurant, he said. He found a car in the side of the building, its front wheels hidden behind glass near Cucciolo’s kitchen. A row of empty tables sat a few feet away…