Dallas police release description of suspect who tagged 11 sites with '666' in anti-gay hate crime
Dallas police announced Thursday they have video of a suspect who used red spray paint to tag 11 sites with 666″ in an apparent anti-gay hate crime last weekend.
Authorities dont plan to release the grainy video, taken from a surveillance camera 100 yards away, until theyve enhanced it. But they said the footage shows a young white male about 6 feet tall traveling on a mountain bike and wearing khaki cargo shorts, a black shirt or jacket and a black baseball cap.
The suspect tagged sites including the Legacy of Love Monument in the heart of the citys gay district, the predominantly LGBT Cathedral of Hope megahurch; Youth First, an agency that serves LGBTQ youth; and newspaper boxes belonging to the gay publication
Dallas Voice. The suspect also tagged Dallas City Hall, the Dallas County-owned building that houses the Sixth Floor Museum, and the offices of
The Dallas Observer,
The Dallas Morning News and
D magazine.
Rafael McDonnell, a spokesman for Resource Center, Dallas LGBT community center, said even the sites that arent gay-specific have ties to the community. For example, both the city and county issued LGBT Pride proclamations last month, and the
Dallas Morning News recently launched an LGBT blog. And as I mentioned before, the
Dallas Observer shares its building with Caven Enterprises, which owns the citys largest gay nightclubs.
More at
http://www.lonestarq.com/666-tagging-suspect-caught-video/
Cross-posted in the Texas Group.