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Partly broken windows are seen on the 600 block of Market Street on Tuesday, July 2, 2019, in Chattanooga, Tenn.Chattanooga police have arrested a suspect in connection to Tuesday's vandalism of multiple downtown businesses.
Michael J. DavisMichael J. Davis, 18, is accused of damaging four windows - two large and two small - in the Miller Brothers building, located at 629 Market Street. He has also been connected to damage done to three windows and a glass door at the Liberty Tower office building, located at 611 Chestnut Street.
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Partly broken windows are seen on the 600 block of Market Street on Tuesday, July 2, 2019, in Chattanooga, Tenn.Chattanooga police were called to the Miller Brothers building at around 10 a.m. Tuesday morning and found the damaged windows. Two of them face West 7th Street and the other two face Market Street.
The Chicken Salad Chick restaurant is one of the businesses to receive the damage, and the Elliot Davis accounting firm is said to be another. It's not clear what businesses were damaged in the Liberty Tower building.
Police believed the damage to both buildings was caused by a pellet or BB gun, but they could not be certain.
Davis was later identified as a suspect and was arrested Wednesday afternoon. He is being taken to the Hamilton County Jail where he will be booked on one count of vandalism over $10,000 and two counts of vandalism over $1,000.
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