Huntsville police looking for suspect in church break-ins

Huntsville police looking for suspect in church break-ins

New this evening -- waay 31 learned three different churches in south huntsville were broken into saturday night and early sunday morning.

Huntsville police told us they believe the same suspect caused damage at these three south huntsville churches: weatherely heights church of christ, all saints lutheran and covenant christian academy.

Take a look at this surviellance video of the suspect hurling a rock through a window..and breaking into one of the churches.

Waay 31's sydeny martin spoke to a church member who discovered the break-in.

He said the suspect caused at least one thousand dollars worth of damage- and now he wants the suspect caught before he vandalizes any other churches.

Jared jimison, church member "there was glass pieces on the ground along with a rock.

And you could feel the breeze from the morning air coming through the doors."

Jared jimison told me he showed up at weatherely heights church of christ sunday morning to help set up the livestream, which allows church members to watch remotely if they are concerned about coronavirus.

-- and that's when he found the shattered glass... jimison told me they called huntsvile police and viewed the church's surviellance cameras which caught the suspect in action..

"he was seen on the phone conversing with someone after he had thrown the first one and shattered the first window.

Almost like he didn't know what to do next or what was supposed to happen."

Huntsville police believe the same suspect could be responsible for breaking into two other south huntsville churches... all saints lutheran and covenant christian academy.

Jimison told me the suspect didn't steal anything from weatherly heights church of christ..

And police didn't say if the suspect got away with anything at the other locations... but jimison said if the suspect needed help he hoped he would have asked rather than break-in..

"this is not the right way to go about getting help.

Breaking and entering, destruction of property, that's just not the way to do it."

"it's a sad case when anyone feels they want to steal from the house of god quite frankly."

Police are asking anyone who recognizes the man in the surviellance video or knows anything about the break-ins to give them a call.