NEW YORK, NY – The New York City Police Department is searching for a white male vandal who was wearing a 2PAC shirt when he spraypainted anti-black messages at on a Queens business. Police are also searching for his accomplice, also a white male.
Detectives with the New York City Police Department’s 14 Precinct released a photo of the two suspects today.
According to police, on Thursday, February 17, at approximately 3:30 am, the two individuals approached a commercial establishment at 33-20 Broadway.
“Both individuals possessed cans of spray paint and proceeded to graffiti an anti-Black remark on a metal gate at the location. The individuals fled on foot in an unknown direction. No injuries were reported as a results of this incident,” the NYPD said in a statement.
Both suspects are described as white males in their mid-20s wearing baseball hats and sneakers.
The NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force is investigating this incident.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or on Twitter @NYPDTips.