Photos: Bar break violence sparks fear over downtown's image among business owners

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Andrew Tom of Instant Glass measures for replacement windows at the Polar Bear Gifts Outlet Store at 4th Avenue and F Street on Monday, Dec. 29, 2014. When employees arrived to work they found multiple bullet holes in the front windows along 4th Avenue.

First there was the night, at the end of November, when police donned riot gear to disperse a drunken crowd from a Fourth Avenue intersection downtown.

Then, early last Sunday morning, gunshots shattered thousands of dollars' worth of window panes at Polar Bear Gifts, down Fourth Avenue. A Lincoln Navigator sped away with bullet holes in its window, but the caller who alerted police would say nothing more.

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