An unidentified man shattered more than a dozen bottles of alcohol and damaged a mirror at Taylor’s Bar and Grill after entering the bar
Sunday afternoon and throwing a potato-sized rock, causing approximately $500 in damage, said Taylor’s General Manager Justin Walker.
Eugene Police Department spokeswoman Kerry Delf confirmed that Walker’s account of the incident matched a police report filed Sunday.
Captured by multiple surveillance tapes, the white male briefly entered the bar two times, leaving momentarily to scan the street before returning a third time to throw the rock from just inside the doorway. The events, which took approximately five minutes, occurred at 3:45 p.m., Walker said.
“The timing on it was just such that my bartender wasn’t standing there,” Walker said. “Had he been standing there, he probably would have been severely injured.”
After the crash, 22-year-old Taylor’s chef Paul Bourdin and another customer chased the suspect eight blocks to the intersection of East 18th Avenue and Patterson Street before losing him.
“We both were just trying to catch up with him,” Bourdin said. “He was just really, really fast and he ended up losing us down there, going through alleys and stuff. He just kind of disappeared.”
Bourdin said he heard the crash and saw people chasing someone out the door, so he followed.
“It was just instinct to run after the guy. It wasn’t even until I turned the corner that I tried to figure out what was going on, but I just knew that someone had come in and done something to the bar,” Bourdin said.
The suspect was captured on surveillance from four different angles by cameras inside Taylor’s and outside the University Bookstore. Walker said the bar is offering a reward to anyone with information leading to the capture of the man, described as in his early 20s with dark hair.
Walker said none of the bar’s employees recognized the man, and none had any idea of his motive. Walker said there had not been any previous incidents or scuffles at the bar, located at 894 E. 13th Ave. across from the bookstore.
“It’s just such a weird thing,” Walker said.

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