A man has been sentenced to three years of probation for toppling 154 headstones in the cemetery in University City, Missouri, more than two years ago.
It took only a few months to repair the vandalism at a Jewish cemetery near St. Louis in 2017. The man, Alzado M. Harris, 35, was sentenced to three years of probation in St. Louis County Circuit Court on Thursday for toppling 154 headstones in the cemetery in University City, Missouri, in February 2017, a spokeswoman for the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney’s office, Josi Nielsen, said Monday.
The authorities scanned video surveillance, but it did not cover the southeast corner of the cemetery, where the headstones had been overturned, she said. They also examined DNA from a jacket that was discovered under a toppled headstone, said Feigenbaum, who was kept informed as the investigation progressed.
The FBI had been prepared to join the investigation if it turned out to have involved a possible federal civil rights violation, a spokeswoman for the bureau, Rebecca Wu, said Monday.
A week after the vandalism in Missouri, the police in Philadelphia found about 100 toppled headstones at the Mount Carmel Jewish Cemetery there. But the next day, the groundskeeper went out to explore, Feigenbaum said, and found headstone after headstone upended. The damage was not scattered, such as might be seen after a storm.“At first he was like: ‘No, there are more than 50 down. It was no weather. Something happened,'” Feigenbaum said. “I called the police even before I got there.”
Feigenbaum said the authorities told her that Harris had squeezed in through a chained gate. Video surveillance failed to cover the spot.
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