Cross with racial slurs left on man's lawn

PHILADELPHIA - New Castle County Police are investigating a hate crime at a home in Newark, DE. It happened sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning in the Delaplane Court community...

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By David Chang
NBC Philadelphia

New Castle County Police are investigating a hate crime at a home in Newark, DE.

It happened sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning in the Delaplane Court community.

Wayne Parson, the 58-year-old homeowner, notified police after finding a cross made out of a pipe material on his front lawn with racial slurs painted on it.

“It said ‘I hate the n-word,’ three times,” said Parson, an African American. “At the bottom it said ‘burn in hell.’”

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Parson, who has lived in the neighborhood for 22 years, says that he’s shocked.

“It was clearly unexpected. I get along with all my neighbors.”

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