An 81-year-old man has been arrested in California after police allege he terrorized his neighbors with a slingshot for about a decade.
Prince King of Azusa is suspected of breaking car windows and windshields and narrowly missing people with ball bearings fired from a slingshot, Azusa police said in a statement May 23.
Dozens of people had reported being “victims” of the stranger, whom police referred to as a “serial slingshot shooter,” over nine to ten years.
No injuries have been reported.
King was arrested after ball bearings and a slingshot were found during a search of his home in the city, which is 25 miles (40 kilometers) from Los Angeles.
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Lt. Jake Bushey said Saturday that detectives learned that most of the ball bearings were fired from the suspect’s backyard.
“We don’t know of any motive other than malicious mischief,” Bushey told the Southern California News Group.
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“It’s been going on for many years because we just didn’t identify who the suspect was.”
King is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday.
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