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.
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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.