Anti-Semitic Graffiti Found at School
Vandals scrawled anti-Semitic graffiti on several buildings at Vasquez High School, causing at least $2,500 in damage, authorities said Friday.
Some of the graffiti, which included swastikas and Jewish symbols, was directed at a Jewish staff member at the school, said Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Ullman of the Palmdale station.
The messages were spray-painted on five buildings sometime between 9 p.m. Thursday and 6 a.m. Friday--the night before one of the holiest days in Judaism, Rosh Hashana.
Authorities have classified the vandalism as a felony hate crime and suspect that the perpetrators may be current or former students at the school.
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