13-car break-in makes for poor April Fools’ joke

What is notoriously known as a day for practical jokes became no laughing matter for 13 Winston-Salem State University students who woke to find that their vehicles had been tampered with.The break-ins occurred to vehicles parked in the Rams Commons parking lot, along Price Street and into the Wilson Hall parking lot.”I’m thinking about just taking my car back home. It’ll be safer there,” said Kionna Kay, a sophomore nursing major from Charlotte. “My roommate told me that some cars had been broken into. I didn’t think to check my car until then.”She said when she went to her vehicle, she discovered that her window had been shattered as the culprits tried to steal the CD player from her car, but couldn’t. Kay noted that it was the second time her car has been broken into.According to Kay, campus police told her that the offenders were caught on tape and chased by campus police, but got away when they wrecked their van and ran.Lt. Marcus Sutton of campus police said the suspects stole a van and made their way to campus to commit car thefts, making the investigation a joint one with the Winston-Salem police department.”We’ve got some leads with the city police on a possible suspect. There were quite a few guys that ran in all different directions after they wrecked over on Cleveland Avenue.”Sutton said the suspects probably headed to Cleveland Avenue because they knew people who stayed in the apartment complex over there.”We’re trying to get something [a lead] with the fingerprints to see if it’s someone who’s been in city jail.”Sutton said the reason some students weren’t notified by campus police about their cars being broken into was because the cars were registered in their parents’ names and most of the cars didn’t have campus decals.”We treat it [the case and break-ins] just like we’re off campus. The students will have to deal with their insurance companies. Parking on campus is no different from parking on city streets,” he said.