Vandal caught on camera slashing tires

MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) - After months of dealing with a vandal lurking around his neighborhood, one home owner has taken matters into his hands. Lee Harden caught a man slashing tires in his driveway on camera, and needs you to help identify him.

Harden watches the man who slashed his wife and daughters tires on video. His video surveillance cameras caught the man around 3:00 Monday morning.

"It makes me angry, makes me very angry for it to keep happening like this," Harden said.

Harden said this isn't the first time he and his family have dealt with someone vandalizing their property. Just six months ago, someone shot a pellet gun into the back of his son's truck. The hole in the tailgate is still there, and it shattered the back window, which has since been repaired.

Now the home is under complete video surveillance.

"This is, I believe, the fourth time we have filed a police report on it," explained Harden.

Harden said police haven't found the suspect on any of the occasions they've been vandalized.

"Because of the city annexing, now we are under the city of police jurisdiction, so the city of Mobile police comes out, they take a report and file it, that's all that they'll do. The guy told me this morning that if I will come out here and wrestle the guy to the ground and call them, they'll come get him," said Harden.

The family doesn't recognize the man in the video, but they pray you will.

"Right now, I mean, my family is in fear living here, knowing that some coward is walking around in the middle of the night with a knife in his hand in my yard. It's crazy. We can't keep living like this and I've told the police department and they know I'm doing everything I can to catch him," added Harden.

If you recognize the man you saw in the video, please call police.