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WEBVTT IN LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES YOUCAN SEE HIM WALK OUT THE DOORCARRYING THE GUITARS.>> I DON'T KNOW WHO THE PERSONWAS.I DON'T KNOW WHAT HIS MOTIVEWAS.I JUST DON'T KNOW.I DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER.EMILY BRIAN CRONIN SAYS HE WAS: SITTING IN TRAFFIC LAST WHENFRIDAY HE GOT AN ALERT ON HISPHONE.>> I JUST STARTED SHAKING.EMILY HE SAYS HE OPENED THE: MUSIC STUDIO'S SECURITY SYSTEMON HIS PHONE, AND WATCHED INREAL-TIME AS SOMEONE BROKETHROUGH THE DOOR.>> IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE.IT WAS SURREAL.SOMEONE BROKE THROUGH THE DOOR.EMILYSOMEONE BROKE THROUGH THEDOOR.: ACCORDING TO THE TIMESTAMP ONTHE VIDEO, THE MAN PULLS UP TOGOLDSMITH STUDIOS AT 5:17 FRIDAYEVENING.TWO MINUTES LATER HE SMASHESTHROUGH THE WINDOW AND KICKS INTHE BACK DOOR.>> HE CAME IN THROUGH THE STUDIODOOR, PICKED UP THE REMOTE FORTHE TAPE MACHINE AND STARTEDSLAMMING IT INTO THE BOARD.EMILY AFTER DAMAGING THE: STUDIO'S SOUND BOARD AND A FEWOTHER PIECES OF EQUIPMENT, YOUCAN SEE THE MAN GRAB AN ACOUSTICGUITAR AND WALK INTO THE PIANOROOM.>> AND JUST STARTED USING THEGUITARS IS BASEBALL PANTS ON THEPIANOS, AND FLIPPED AND ELECTRICPIANO.HE CAME AND HE LEFT AND WENT TOFIND MORE STUFF.EMILY BEFORE LEAVING, THE MAN: GRABS THREE GUITARS, PUTS THEMIN THE BACKSEAT OF HIS SUV ANDTAKES OFF.THE OWNER SAYS HE HAS NO IDEAWHO THIS MAN IS OR WHY HEDAMAGED HIS STUDIO.>> I HAVE LOOKED AT THAT VIDEO,I MEAN I HAVE SPENT HOURS ON IT.FRAME BY FRAME, TO SEE IF THEREIS SOMETHING THAT I CAN PICK UPTHAT I AM MISSING.EMILY: THE STUDIO'S OWNER SAYSHE'S TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOWMUCH DAMAGE WAS DONE.AT THIS POINT, HE'S ESTIMATINGCOSTS OF AT LEAST $20,000.HE SAYS THE STUDIO WILL ALSO

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Security cameras captured a suspected thief trashing a Louisville music studio and stealing three guitars.The owner said he watched the break-in on his phone, as it was happening.“I don’t know who the person was,” said Brian Cronin, the owner of Goldsmith Studios. “I don’t know what his motive was. I don’t have an answer.”Cronin said he was sitting in traffic on Friday when he got an alert on his phone.“I just started shaking,” he said.Cronin said he opened the music studio’s security system on his phone and watched in real time as someone broke through the door.“It was unbelievable,” Cronin said. “It was surreal.”According to the time stamp on the video, the man pulled up the studio at 5:17 p.m.Two minutes later, the man smashed through the window and kicked in the back door.“He came in through the studio door, picked up the remote for the tape machine and started slamming it into the board,” Cronin said. After damaging the studio’s sound board and a few other pieces of equipment, the man grabbed an acoustic guitar and walked into the piano room.“He just started using the guitar as a baseball bat on the pianos,” Cronin said. “He flipped an electric piano. His next move was, before that had even fallen to the ground, he left and went to find more stuff.”Video shows that, before the man left the studio and drove away, he grabbed three guitars and put them in the back of his SUV.The owner said he has no idea who the man is or why he damaged the studio.“I’ve looked at that video. I’ve spend hours on it, frame by frame, to see if there’s something that I can pick up, that I’m missing," Cronin said.Cronin said the guitars that were stolen include a 2010 Gibson SG, faded cherry in color; a Samick Greg Bennett FA 2 electric guitar, aqua green in color with a white marble pick guard; and a blue Ibanez four-string bass guitar.If you have any information, call Louisville Metro police, at 574-5673.