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Lunenburg hate crime that targeted high school football player may have been committed by own mother: reports
Andrea Brazier considered ‘strong suspect’ after extensive probe. Massachusetts town rallied behind Brazier’s son, Isaac Phillips, after the hateful message ‘Knights don’t need Niggers’ was spray painted on family home.
But now it has been revealed that investigators are zeroing in on Phillips' mom, Andrea Brazier (right), as a 'strong suspect.'
State and federal officials have been investigating the incident where an unknown assailant scrawled “Knights don’t need Niggers” on the side of the Phillips’ home.
Phillips plays for the Lunenburg Knights football team.
Brazier had stopped helping investigators and offered several different accounts of the incident, according to a police affidavit obtained Wednesday by CBS Boston.
Andrea Brazier considered ‘strong suspect’ after extensive probe. Massachusetts town rallied behind Brazier’s son, Isaac Phillips, after the hateful message ‘Knights don’t need Niggers’ was spray painted on family home.
The prime suspect believed to have scrawled racist graffiti on the house of a Lunenburg High School football player is well-known to the boy.
It’s his own mother.
Massachusetts police have listed Andrea Brazier, the mother of 13-year-old Isaac Phillips, as a “strong suspect” in the November hate crime, according to reports.
It’s his own mother.
Massachusetts police have listed Andrea Brazier, the mother of 13-year-old Isaac Phillips, as a “strong suspect” in the November hate crime, according to reports.
But now it has been revealed that investigators are zeroing in on Phillips' mom, Andrea Brazier (right), as a 'strong suspect.'
State and federal officials have been investigating the incident where an unknown assailant scrawled “Knights don’t need Niggers” on the side of the Phillips’ home.
Phillips plays for the Lunenburg Knights football team.
Brazier had stopped helping investigators and offered several different accounts of the incident, according to a police affidavit obtained Wednesday by CBS Boston.
“Andrea just kept answering ‘OK,’ and that she wanted everything to end and that we did not understand,” Detective Jeffrey Thibodeau of the Lunenburg police said in an affidavit.
In a stunning turn of events, a police discovered spray paint cans while searching the home Tuesday, according to reports. “Most of the leads that we have followed up throughout the investigation have led back toward the house,” Lunenburg Police Department Lt. Mike Luth told the Boston Globe.
The racist graffiti shocked the Massachusetts town. Lunenburg officials denounced the bigotry and rallied behind Phillips, hosting candlelight vigils and canceling football games until the person was apprehended.
Isaac Phillips is biracial. Andrea Brazier, who is white, first reported the graffiti. On Nov. 18, police found aerosol cans in a fire pit in the backyard of their home. Her husband, Anthony Phillips, who is black, offered three different accounts of where the cans came from, the Boston Globe reported.
Originally members of the football team were believed to be the culprits, but the recent revelations have put the mother in investigator’s crosshairs.
Lunenburg Public Schools Superintendent Loxi Colmes said on Wednesday that she “never imagined that something like this could happen in our community.”
“I am grateful that the football players have been removed as suspects,” Colmes said in a statement. “The highly charged emotional environment would have made it unsafe to play.”
The Phillips family has placed “no trespassing” signs on their property. The Phillips father declined to comment when reached by the Globe.
Students expressed disbelief that Andrea Brazier mother could have perpetrated such a heinous act against her own son.
“It’s pretty shocking, if it’s really his mom,” Sam Sargent, 15, a sophomore who plays on the varsity basketball team, told the Globe. “If it’s true, she didn’t just put her son through a lot. She put this whole town through a lot.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...m-prepreated-hate-crime-son-article-1.1538649
If I was on the football team, I would be looking for a little payback after they cancelled the football games.
In a stunning turn of events, a police discovered spray paint cans while searching the home Tuesday, according to reports. “Most of the leads that we have followed up throughout the investigation have led back toward the house,” Lunenburg Police Department Lt. Mike Luth told the Boston Globe.
The racist graffiti shocked the Massachusetts town. Lunenburg officials denounced the bigotry and rallied behind Phillips, hosting candlelight vigils and canceling football games until the person was apprehended.
Isaac Phillips is biracial. Andrea Brazier, who is white, first reported the graffiti. On Nov. 18, police found aerosol cans in a fire pit in the backyard of their home. Her husband, Anthony Phillips, who is black, offered three different accounts of where the cans came from, the Boston Globe reported.
Originally members of the football team were believed to be the culprits, but the recent revelations have put the mother in investigator’s crosshairs.
Lunenburg Public Schools Superintendent Loxi Colmes said on Wednesday that she “never imagined that something like this could happen in our community.”
“I am grateful that the football players have been removed as suspects,” Colmes said in a statement. “The highly charged emotional environment would have made it unsafe to play.”
The Phillips family has placed “no trespassing” signs on their property. The Phillips father declined to comment when reached by the Globe.
Students expressed disbelief that Andrea Brazier mother could have perpetrated such a heinous act against her own son.
“It’s pretty shocking, if it’s really his mom,” Sam Sargent, 15, a sophomore who plays on the varsity basketball team, told the Globe. “If it’s true, she didn’t just put her son through a lot. She put this whole town through a lot.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...m-prepreated-hate-crime-son-article-1.1538649
If I was on the football team, I would be looking for a little payback after they cancelled the football games.