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Slideshow: Vandals sought for spray painting racist graffiti
04:43 PM EST on Monday, November 5, 2007
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Police are on the hunt for whoever sprayed racist graffiti all over a Chesapeake neighborhood.
Chesapeake Police say someone spray-painted at least 9 vehicles and a house in Dock Landing Meadows and Forest Hills with racist graffiti Sunday.
Police say there were also some initials they don't know the meaning of and a few vehicles were reportedly splashed with some type of chemical causing the paint to crackle.
Pam Burnell says her husband put a lot of work into restoring his 1987 Suburban, all to have someone destroy the paint job in matter of a few seconds.
"It's a sick, sad world that does this,” said Burnell. "I just hate it because we're the ones who are going have to deal with it. What they put on there is just so unbelievably disgusting to have to deal with that it’s so aggravating and so upsetting."
Around the corner, the vandals used a garage door as a billboard. Removing a racial slur and a symbol resembling a swastika, took a lot more elbow grease than these two real estate employees expected.
"Hopefully these kids will be caught or they'll come forward and they'll apologize for what they've done, and we can move on from here,” said Nancy McAfee of ERA Real Estate.
Police say the vandals are more than likely juveniles, but there were also some kids who didn't like what they were seeing in their neighborhood, and pitched in to help clean up.
"This is our neighborhood and we should keep it nice,” said 13-year-old Chris Brock.
According to police, when suspects are found they face felony charges for any addresses where damage exceeded $200.
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