A Christian church in Redlands was vandalized for the third time in one week, an incident that police are investigating as a hate-crime.
REDLANDS, Calif. -- At outside the ACTS Center in Redlands, a member of the non-denominational church power washed the walkways. Each pass peeling away at the paint vandals poured on it leaving behind their shoe prints in the wet paint.
On Thursday, Matthews says the church's security cameras have alerted them to strangers on the grounds when they arrived 30-minutes later they found messages left on doors and windows. The Redlands Police Department is investigating the vandalism as a hate crime. According to Matthews, security cameras provided to investigators showed the vandals being led by a an adult man and a woman who appeared to be in her late teens.
Matthews believes the church was targeted following a separate break-in earlier in the week when vandals broke into a storage closet where the paint was kept. On Thursday, the vandals broke into the same closet but this time used it to graffiti the outside of the building.
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