Early last Wednesday morning, a man walked up to a duplex on a residential, tree-lined block in North Oakland and hurled a cantaloupe-sized rock through the front window, shattering the glass.
The vandal then turned and ran down the sidewalk, according to Ring camera footage shared by the property owner with the Chronicle, leaving residents of the Rockridge-area neighborhood alarmed by what they said marked a recent escalation in an ongoing pattern of similar attacks.
For reasons that are yet unclear, someone has been throwing rocks into homes and car windows in recent weeks along several blocks between Telegraph and Claremont avenues, jarring residents in the quiet neighborhood just west of busy College Avenue, where homes were decorated with pumpkins and skeletons on Wednesday…