Intruder paints racist graffiti in 83-year-old's home
When Italian immigrant Lucia DeFrancesco returned from a trip to the hair salon on Friday, the 83-year-old discovered that someone had broken into her Franklin Park home...
FROM NBC CHICAGO
By Christian Farr and Zach Christman
When Italian immigrant Lucia DeFrancesco returned from a trip to the hair salon on Friday, the 83-year-old discovered that someone had broken into her Franklin Park home and vandalized it with racist messages.
”(It was) very bad. Very bad,” DeFrancesco said.
On Friday, DeFrancesco’s grandson, Dome Lorusso, was one of the first to get a call that someone had broken into his grandmother’s home.
“They came to the back and cut the screen of the sun room open,” Lorusso said.
After figuring out how they got in, Lorusso walked into the kitchen and saw two spray-painted messages on the floor both containing the n-word: one telling his grandmother to keep them out, and the other with just two words: “n——- lover.”
“It breaks my heart. It’s just not right. You could feel the hate just oozing off the words,” he said.
But the hateful messages did not end in the kitchen. They carried into DeFrancesco’s bedroom, where the intruder used lipstick to write “no n——-s allowed” on her mirror.
“They just went in there and defaced it. And that’s where you sleep at night. That’s where you should feel the safest,” Lorusso said.”
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After a health issue late last year, DeFrancesco needed the help of a nurse’s aide. She comes several times a week, and happens to be black. Lorusso said the aide feels responsible for what happened, even though that’s obviously not the case.
“She’s an amazing woman. It’s not like she’s doing any negative things,” he said.
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