vandalism

Angry crowds took to the streets in West Philadelphia overnight after police shot and killed a man armed with a knife Monday, with some in the crowds throwing rocks and bricks at police and some looting or vandalizing businesses.

A community in Rockville is searching for answers after their cars were vandalized with a BB gun over the weekend. Transportation reporter Adam Tuss spoke with residents who now have to repair smashed windows.

Members of a Maryland community found hate speech scrawled on a high school football field and some parents now want the suspected vandals to face hate crime charges.  The act is not a hate crime under current Maryland law. While the law will change on Oct. 1, it’s unlikely to apply retroactively to the case.  The N-word was scrawled...

A racial slur was painted on the high school’s football field Sunday evening. Classrooms were also broken into and vandalized. News4’s Chris Gordon spoke to parents who want to see the vandals face hate crime charges.

A federal grand jury indicted a D.C. man Tuesday and charged him with spray painting the Lincoln Memorial during protests against racial injustice in late May. U.S. Park Police officers said they saw 26-year-old Micah Avery spray paint “Yall not tired yet?” on the memorial on May 30. Avery ran off when the officers approached him, but the officers...

Customers of an Alexandria coffee shop are showing support for the owner after a run-in with a patron who refused to wear a mask. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder reports.

A group of teens is accused of repeatedly targeting a D.C. man’s home. He said they’ve been vandalizing it for the past week. News4’s Shomari Stone has surveillance video and reaction from neighbors who say he’s not the only one.

A mural honoring George Floyd in Woburn, Massachusetts, has been vandalized for the second time in less than two weeks. The tribute to Floyd, located in the Tri-Community Greenway on the Woburn-Stoneham Line, was found covered with red paint this weekend. After the painting was defaced the first time, the artist, 42-year-old Esben Rey, vowed to repaint it. The Jamaica…

Someone spray-painted several swastikas on sidewalks and buildings at a shopping center in Reston, Virginia, police say. The vandalism was discovered early Wednesday morning at North Point Village Center on Reston Parkway. Photos show bright red swastikas emblazoned on numerous sidewalks, the brick wall outside a store and on a concrete outdoor table. A group of neighbors bought lunch for…

Plymouth Rock was spray-painted with a message Monday as one or more vandals struck the historic site in Plymouth, Massachusetts, an act that the head of the local tourism board called “sad and unsettling.” The rock, which commemorates the 1620 arrival of the Mayflower carrying Pilgrims, was found tagged with red graffiti. The other objects found defaced by Monday morning…

The teenager accused of putting an explosive device in a Rockville mailbox is accused of other crimes. Shomari Stone reports police say the 17-year-old boy vandalized a car, causing $3,000 in damages.

Police in Virginia say that two people have been arrested for allegedly vandalizing a Confederate monument in the city of Charlottesville. Charlottesville police spokesman Tyler Hawn said in an email that the arrests were made early Thursday morning at the statue of General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. Hawn did not release the individuals’ names but said more information will be released….

A Pennsylvania man accused in the recent vandalism of a Beverly Hills synagogue was arrested in Hawaii and is being charged being charged under a hate crime enhancement, NBC News reported Wednesday, citing police.

Police are searching for a man after he allegedly vandalized a Beverly Hills Synagogue early Saturday morning. The man allegedly broke into the Nessah Synagogue where he overturned furniture, damaged relics and ransacked the inside. The synagogue’s main scrolls were not damaged during the vandalism, according to police. Police do not believe anything was stolen during the incident. Police...

A man who authorities say broke into Rihanna’s Hollywood Hills home and spent 12 hours there when she was not home has pleaded no contest to stalking the singer.

A Jewish community center in Northern Virginia hosted a community reflection on unity and love a week after a masked man vandalized the center with anti-Semitic symbols.

Two people were charged after a large group of vandals who police described as “anarchists” damaged high-end cars and newly developed buildings and left behind an anti-gentrification message in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood Monday night.

A vandal apparently used the cover of night to damage a “Black Lives Matter” banner displayed outside a Wilmington church over the weekend.

A $15,000 reward is being offered to find three shotgun-toting vandals who broke into a habitat at Death Valley National Park, leaving behind a trail of beer cans, vomit, shotgun shells and a pair of boxer shorts in an ancient water-filled cavern where officials discovered an endangered fish dead.