>“This is a great neighborhood, and we always walk around at night. It’s always been very safe. We walk around at night, so it’s disturbing. To find out there have been carjackings and tires that have been pieced… it’s incongruous,” said one resident.

Resident says "pierced" all reports indicate they were instead deflated by putting lentil beans in the valve stem.

Not that I endorse either act, but this is how misinformation starts. The resident clearly just HEARD the story and assumed the tires were deflated by piercing them.
Then the article reprints their words without pointing out that they fundamentally don't know what's happened and the words contain an assumption.

Now people are gonna quote this article and say "reports say the tires were pierced"...