{"id":81024,"date":"2026-01-08T06:21:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81024\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T06:21:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:21:26","slug":"suspect-sought-in-roxborough-high-school-vandalism-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81024\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect sought in Roxborough High School vandalism \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Law enforcement officials are working to identify an individual who wrote racist and antisemitic graffiti at Roxborough High School<\/a> over the past weekend.<\/p>\n

And, on Wednesday morning, police shared surveillance footage of the individual that officials believe is responsible for the — badly drawn and poorly spelled — hateful epithets that were found at the school, located along the 6000 block of Ridge Avenue, on Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026. <\/p>\n

Police posted the footage to social media: <\/p>\n

In the footage, a man can be seen wearing, what police described as an orange scarf\/wrap, a green and black winter hat, gray hooded jacket, gray pants and a gray and black backpack, as he walks towards the school while carrying an orange firearm-shaped item — likely a water gun or something similar.<\/p>\n

Police said that when he got to the school, this individual painted graffiti — found later to be crude swastikas and poorly spelled racial epithets, with one reading “I heat n******” — on the walls of the high school.<\/p>\n

After vandalizing the property, police said the individual fled the scene headed towards Ridge Ave. <\/p>\n

Police are asking anyone who may have information on this individual or this incident to contact the Philadelphia Police Department’s Northwest Detective Division at 215-686-3353\/3354 or contact the department’s tip line at 215-686-TIPS (8477). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Law enforcement officials are working to identify an individual who wrote racist and antisemitic graffiti at Roxborough High…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,35566],"class_list":{"0":"post-81024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-philadelphia","9":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","10":"tag-philadelphia-news","11":"tag-roxborough"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}