SAN ANTONIO — Mayhem in the Medical Center area started around 4 a.m. Tuesday.
A surveillance camera at a business on Babcock Road near Louis Pasteur captured clear images of a man on a mission.
The man, who can be seen in hospital type scrubs and socks, appears to be wearing an identification band and a bandage on his arm, as if he had an IV.
The video shows him rounding a corner, approaching the building entrance with big rocks and bashing a glass door and window. A short distance to the south, the Centro Med building met a similar fate, with two plate glass windows shattered.
Local business owners said they saw a number of cars in a mulit-family complex were attacked as well, and when the man got to Callaghan Road, the rampage continued at a strip shopping center. Police later arrested a suspect, 27-year-old Nathaniel Zermeno.
Hector Bedoy was already at work near the corner and he said he heard the commotion as glass shattered.
"I heard like a slamming sound and I couldn't figure it out and I was like what's that?" Bedoy said. "I heard it two more times so I went to the back door and I saw a guy walking down the sidewalk. I saw him swing his arm and he hit the window. Of course, he broke it."
"He did that one and he went to the next one and he smashed that one," Bedoy said, adding that's when he felt like he might be in danger.
"He started crossing the street and I was standing right there and it looked like he was going to come at me so I grabbed a knife I had and he turned away. First he started coming at me, then he turned away," Bedoy said.
Bedoy said he called police and was surprised that he waited about an hour for a response.
"I think it would have saved a lot of people money down the street if they had been faster," he said.
At the strip center that was attacked, a game store, a florist, a cell phone business and a sweet shop all lost big plate glass windows.
A Pizza Hut a few hundred yards away on Callaghan also took a hit and the vandalism continued south of Loop 410 as well.
A medical careers school, a bakery, a nail salon and a vacant store front all lost big glass.
Several business owners claim police officers told them they believed the man escaped or walked away from a nearby health care facility because of the way he was dressed.
Police said they do have reports from numerous victims and they are investigating. Meanwhile, Zermeno remains jailed as of 4 p.m. Wednesday, facing charges of criminal mischief. He was assigned a $5,000 bond.
No dollar damage estimate has been compiled at this time.