Teens who spray-painted school with racist, homophobic slurs caught through WiFi info
GENLEG, MD. — Cell phones and WiFi information helped identify four teens who vandalized their Maryland school with spray-painted swastikas and racist and homophobic slurs, according to a Washington Post report.
Seth Taylor, Tyler Curtiss, Joshua Shaffer and Matthew Lipp were each charged with vandalism, destruction of property and a hate crime in May 2018, The Post reported. The four covered their faces when they used spray paint to draw swastikas and write racist and homophobic slurs on the exterior of Genleg High School, where they were seniors.
The school is the only majority white high school in the county, and Principal David Burton is African American. Some of the graffiti named Burton and called him a racist slur, The Post reported.
Taylor told The Post that they were originally going to spray paint "Class of 2018" on the sidewalk, but that "things got out of hand."
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(Atlanta Journal Constitution)