Vandals attack Uncasville cemetary

Uncasville, Conn (WTNH) - For the second time in less than a year, crews are cleaning up racist graffiti on a shed and other areas of the Comstock Cemetery in Uncasville.

Donna Jacobson, the chair of Montville's Town Council, had just visited her parent's gravesite in the Comstock Cemetery when she spotted the graffiti on the maintenance building.

"It was a horrendous shock. Horrendous," Jacobson said.

This is the second time vandals have struck the Uncasville cemetery. Six months ago, swastikas were painted on the backs of six gravestones. The graffiti has now expanded to anti-semitic messages, defacing a place where many are remembered.

"I'm at such a loss of words for seeing something like that," Jacobson said. When asked if she thought this was a hate crime, she responded, "I firmly believe it is a hate crime. It specifically... I mean it's specifically focused at a group."

Police are trying to track down the spray painting vandals, and say this graffiti has been there for a couple of weeks.

"They are investigating but what I'm concerned about is the fact that it's been chalked up as vandalism and not as a hate crime," said Jacobson.

Jacobson, who's father was Jewish, is hoping to get help from the Anti-Defamation League.