Fixed! The North entrance of the building’s new door makes it seem as if the destruction never happened.The doors were replaced the week of Thanksgiving break. - Katie Washington
When walking by the
entrance near the counselor’s offices, new glass doors have replaced the wood
that boarded up the gaping hole once present.
Two of the entrances to the school were damaged
after a silver Chevrolet drove up the walkway and repeatedly smashed into the
doors.
Khelawan Binesh, 36, and Lana Aberle, 17, were
arrested on school property after Springfield and school police responded to
the early morning alarms.
“The destruction took place at around 2 a.m. that
morning,” Police officer Matt Brown said. “They smashed the car into the
entrance. They didn’t get the car all the way through, but they caused enough
damage that they could get inside of the building.”
After damaging the doors, Binesh and Aberle
allegedly came into the school and tried to break into the school store.
“We caught them on the security cameras kicking
the front of the display case, hoping to shatter the glass,” Cindy Shannon,
marketing teacher at Parkview, said. “They thankfully did not succeed in
breaking the glass, so nothing was taken.”
According to Shannon, there will be new measures
in place to better protect the school store.
“Keeping your business inventory safe and secure
is crucial in business,” Shannon said. “Inventory represents profit, so we will
definitely take additional measures.”
According to Shannon, the reason they may have
went for the school store was because it was “immediate and visible.”
After they tried to rob the school store, Binesh
and Aberle reportedly went back out to their car and sat in the parking lot.
“The suspects were found in the school parking
lot, sitting in the car that they crashed into the building with,” Brown said.
Aberle was charged with three counts of
first-degree property damage, tampering with a motor vehicle, and second-degree
burglary. Binesh was charged with two counts of property damage and one count
of burglary.
Aberle and Binesh were not cooperative when they were being questioned, according to
Brown.
“The suspects were uncooperative and would not
explain why they committed the destruction,” Brown said. “They gave the police
no insight.”
The two entrances that were damaged were fixed
the week of Thanksgiving break.