Vacant House Being Sold to Asians Damaged in Apparent Hate Crime
Vandals broke into a vacant house in Diamond Bar and spray-painted “KKK” and racial epithets on the walls, authorities said Saturday.
“Paper was torn from the walls, the stove door was broken off, the dishwasher door was broken off. Holes were punched in the walls,” Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Ruben Contreras said. “They caused about $25,000 damage.”
A mortgage company agent checking on the house in the 21400 block of Broken Arrow Drive discovered the damage about 1:45 p.m. Friday, and investigators believe the vandalism occurred sometime Thursday or Friday, Contreras said.
Detectives are investigating the vandalism as a hate crime, Contreras said. The neighborhood is racially mixed and middle-class, he said, and the whites who had owned the house moved out some time ago.
The house was being sold to an Asian family, he said.
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