March 24, 2019
THE CRIME AND THE RESTITUTION:
Man who toppled headstones at Jewish cemetery in U. City gets probation (Erin Heffernan, 3/23/19, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
A man who told police he toppled more than 100 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in University City in 2017 because he was drunk, on drugs and mad at a friend was sentenced Thursday to three years probation and a suspended sentence.Alzado M. Harris, 35, of Northwoods, confessed to knocking over the headstones at the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in February 2017, causing more than $30,000 in damage, according to court documents. [...]Tarek El-Messidi, a Muslim social justice advocate from Philadelphia, and another volunteer raised $160,000 for restoration efforts at the cemetery within a few weeks of the vandalism.
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 24, 2019 6:52 AM