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STUDIO CITY : House Defaced With Swastikas

By HENRY CHU
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Vandals spray-painted more than three-dozen black swastikas on a vacant Studio City house in the third hate crime reported in the San Fernando Valley within a week, Los Angeles police said Tuesday.

The newly constructed residence in the 4300 block of Rhodes Avenue was vandalized between noon Monday and 6 a.m. Tuesday, when a real estate agent found the graffiti, Police Lt. Ron LaRue said. Police counted 37 black swastikas painted on walls and windows.

LaRue said police had no clear indication of a motive.

He added that there does not appear to be a connection between the Studio City incident and two other recent hate crimes.

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Friday or early Saturday, intruders spray-painted walls, furniture and equipment with anti-Semitic statements at Valley Torah High School, a Jewish school in North Hollywood. And the walls of two classrooms and a stairwell at Cal State Northridge were defaced with anti-Semitic sayings and symbols.

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Henry Chu

Henry Chu first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005, New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 and London from 2009 to 2014. He was a 2014-15 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. From 2016-19 he was international editor at Variety magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Chu returned to The Times in March 2020 as deputy news editor based in London. He left in 2024.

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