This photo shows a smashed door and window at Bizzarro Italian Cafe last year. Five other businesses were targeted on this same night.
An online fundraiser has been started to help several White Center businesses that have been the victims of recent, ongoing vandalism.

Damage to 19 local businesses includes broken windows, doors, property damage, burglaries and other crimes.

Here’s more info and photos of a vandal suspect from the King County Sheriff’s Office:

Her wind up may not rival a major league pitcher, but she hit the strike zone. But this perfect pitch through a bakery window just might land her in jail. Do you know her?

On the morning of 04/30/2021 at 4:30 AM, the woman was caught on camera using a large stone and stick to break into a business in the 9800 block of 16th Avenue SW in White Center.

Employees arrived at the business to find the front window smashed. A review of their security cameras turned up these images of the crime occurring.

These crimes add insult to injury for our local small businesses already struggling to stay open during the pandemic.

If you have any information on this, please contact our non-emergency number at 206-296-3311 and refer to case #C21013364.

“For many of our small businesses, experiencing an unpredictable financial loss this large at the peak of the pandemic could be the difference between staying in business or having to close up shop,” organizers said. “We don’t want these senseless acts of property destruction to threaten our beloved stores, restaurants, and salons. We are showing up for our locally owned businesses by fundraising to offset the cost of the damage that was done to them.”

The list of businesses vandalized so far in 2020 includes:

    • Salvadorean Bakery & Restaurant
    • Bizzarro Italian Cafe
    • Full Tilt
    • Macadons
    • Mynt Salon
    • Decoraciones Ely
    • Za-Za Boutique
    • Crawfish House
    • Beer and Wine Source
    • La Tipica Oaxaqueña

The goal is to raise $5,000 in order to financially support local businesses as they repair broken windows and recover from other forms of vandalism.

“Many of these business owners have been serving our community for decades, and the majority of them are BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and/or first- and second-generation immigrants already negatively impacted by the rising costs of operating a business in our neighborhood,” organizers said.

“White Center is our home. And when one of us is hurting, we are all hurting,” they added.

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Here’s a video about the recent crimes courtesy Q13Fox: