Neighbors have their sense of security shattered amid rash of overnight car break-ins
As car windows shattered, so did the sense of security for some neighbors in Pittsburgh.
'Just aghast, I mean I was like 'What! that was awful,' one person whose car was damaged told Channel 11.
Tonight on 11 at 11, reporter Antoinette DelBel looks into a rash of car break-ins targeting two Pittsburgh neighborhoods.
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