IL Veteran’s Cemetery Memorial Day Event On-Hold After Swastikas Found Spray Painted On Hundreds Of Gravestones

Cemetery Memorial Day event planners are scrambling to clean more than 200 headstones that were found to be spray-painted with Nazi style swastikas at an Illinois Veteran’s burial ground overnight, local media reported.

Police were called to the Sunset Hill Memorial Estates, Fountain Drive, Glen Carbon, IL, on Saturday morning after the black spray paint was discovered.

The cemetery is the resting place for more than 1,300 veterans. Officials were working to clean up the vandalism before a Memorial Day event on Monday and planned to power wash the tombstones to clean them.

This is the first time the cemetery has been vandalized, the cemetery owner told KMOV, but he’s still considering installing security cameras at the property.

Police were also called to a nearby neighborhood after residents found the same spray paint on homes and at least one vehicle. source

The Edwardsville Police Department posted video to Facebook that showed security footage of a possible suspect.