Children caught on camera destroying charter school for 90 minutes, shattering nearly 30 windows with rocks

A pair of adolescents were caught on camera vandalizing a Scottsdale, Arizona, charter school by hammering the building with rocks for more than an hour.

BASIS Scottsdale, a charter school for students in fifth grade to 12th grade, saw its third case of mass vandalism in the last year.

School staff arrived on a Monday morning to see that nearly 30 windows were smashed or damaged on campus. Two young boys were pictured on surveillance cameras using rocks to break glass inside and outside the building, destroying windows in the gymnasium, front lobby, a staff office, and at least eight classrooms, ABC 15 Arizona reported.

School officials told reporters that the two boys spent 90 minutes going around the school to break windows and spent more than 10 minutes to get through sections of glass in some instances. Most of the damage was inflicted on the lower-level windows of the building.

The children allegedly hid from cars as they passed by, as well. The alleged young vandals eventually fled the scene on a pair of e-bikes.

"Yeah, it's really, it's beyond a … it's a frustration," said Head of School Tyler Garvey.

Garvey said that he thinks it was the same two minors who vandalized the school in December 2022 during winter break, and another time during spring break 2023.

"We believe it's the same two students, two kids that have done this. We don't have them as students at our school, so we're also going to be working with the local middle schools and elementary schools and sharing those pictures to see if their staff can recognize them," Garvey added.

No arrests have been made, police reportedly stated, but an investigation is ongoing with surveillance video being examined. Police also took pictures of the crime scene and even searched for fingerprints.

A cleanup crew said that due to having to order and install new windows, the restoration project could take four weeks or longer.

Older students have been assigned to online classes to make room for the younger students to use undamaged classrooms.

School officials were hopeful that the suspects would be found on this third occasion, given that they were able to provide video surveillance of the crimes while they were in progress.

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