EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Vandals targeted a mural and marquee at Gunn Central, spraying paint onto a mural depicting Charlie Kirk, according to the business\u2019s manager.<\/p>\n
Cameron McIntyre, the manager at Gunn Central, said the vandalism happened \u201clast night, some point after midnight.\u201d He said it appeared the person used something similar to \u201cthose kids’ water toys where you suck the water up into the toy and then you shoot the water out\u201d to spray paint \u201cup on the Charlie Kirk mural and on our marquee.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really frustrating,\u201d McIntyre said. \u201cIt was a fairly expensive mural.\u201d<\/p>\n
McIntyre said the vandalism went beyond property damage.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe disrespected the artist,\u201d McIntyre said. \u201cThe artist spent days and days up there in the sun painting that up there, you know.\u201d<\/p>\n
McIntyre also said, \u201cHe obviously disrespected the memory of a dead person, whether or not you agreed with his political ideology or you are slandering and disrespecting somebody who’s passed away. Just disrespect all the way around.\u201d<\/p>\n
McIntyre said a police report has been filed. <\/p>\n
He said the person who vandalized the mural \u201cleft his backpack on scene,\u201d adding, \u201cThey definitely got his DNA, his fingerprints.\u201d McIntyre said, \u201cProbably won’t be long until they catch him.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for repairs, McIntyre said the business plans to try to remove the paint first. \u201cIf that doesn’t work, we’ll paint over it and repaint the mural,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
McIntyre said people have noticed the damage. \u201cYeah, a lot of people have noticed and said how horrible it is that it happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
McIntyre said Gunn Central plans to offer \u201ca cash reward to any information that leads to the arrest of the perpetrator.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Vandals targeted a mural and marquee at Gunn Central, spraying paint onto a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-175832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}