A hateful vandal carrying a rainbow flag defaced at least three New York City churches with “anti-Christian” graffiti, according to cops still hunting the suspect.
The Pride flag-carrying suspect was also wearing a rainbow face covering when cameras caught them vandalizing the churches in Far Rockaway, Queens, in the early hours of Oct. 5, the NYPD said of the hate crime.
NYPD is seeking the public’s help in identifying the suspect. DCPI
The suspect — who was seen pushing a bicycle — first targeted the Refuge Church of Christ at 18-37 Mott Avenue around 1:40 a.m., police said.
The suspect defaced three Queens churches on Oct. 5. DCPI
Four minutes later, the same perp vandalized the City of Oasis Church of Deliverance, which is about 100 feet away at 18-74 Mott Avenue.
Then around 2 a.m., the vandal struck at St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Church at 19-20 New Haven Avenue, painting on the front of the church as well as over the faces of two religious statues there, cops said.
Police did not reveal what the “anti-Christian statements” were.
The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is investigating it as “multiple acts of criminal mischief as a hate crime.”