RFP Staff
♦ It’s springtime in the Bury and the vandals are on the loose throughout the Downtown area, at Salisbury High, the Historic District–just about anywhere someone can hurl a rock, point a spray paint aerosol, set fire to a building, smash a car window, tip a gravestone or plunder a grave, key a car door, gang tag or graffiti up a wall, and fade quietly into the night. Salisbury is under siege–the party is just getting starting for teen and old head “rockers” and those who would use any building for their canvas or fire it up Salisbury style. Window and insurance companies phones are about to ring off the hook. The price of business and just living day-to-day as Salisbury’s army of angry young men and women head out to “paint the town” or send glass shards flying in all directions.
This week vandals victimized John “Magic Math” Sofley, 60, on the 100 block of West Bank by the Kress Building (one of the most gang tagged buildings in Downtown Salisbury). On Saturday vandals also struck Salisbury High at 500 Lincolnton Road, did up the 500 block of South Craig Street, got it going on 600 East Bank Street, and made their mark on the 800 block of South Jackson. Many neighborhhoods heard cascading glass and rocks smashing through windows or saw decorative crowns and names scrawled walls and doors.
Vandalism Victim John “Magic Math” Sofley:
Gang Tagged Kress Building a Chronic Target:
“Ghetto Girl” Gets the Big Payback:
Gang Tagged “Name Your Price” Salisbury Manse:
Rocked:
Suspicious Fire:
Cemetery Vandalism Sometimes Descends into Grave Robbery:
