Man’s Car Vandalized in Suspected Hate Crime

An African American man’s car was vandalized in what the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department described as a hate crime.

Around 6:40 p.m. Friday, the 32-year-old Lancaster man found his Nissan Altima damaged in the parking lot of the Brunswick Bowling Alley at 43233 N. Sierra Highway, said Lt. Axel Anderson of the Lancaster sheriffs’ station. Vandals had slashed the car’s tires and broken its windows, he said.

The vandals also painted racial epithets and white-supremacy symbols and initials on the car’s hood, including a swastika, KKK and SWP, which generally means Supreme White People’s Party, Anderson said. The damage was estimated at $3,000, he said.

The owner, whom officials declined to identify, told officers that several white youths in a black Ford Thunderbird drove slowly by and looked at him in the parking lot before he entered the bowling alley, Anderson said. The man and the youths did not exchange words, he said, but when he returned to the car he found it had been vandalized.

People with information about the crime can call the Sheriff’s Department at (323) 526-5541.