North Shore police memorial vandalized for 2nd time this spring
The word “deceit” was spray painted on a police memorial on Pittsburgh’s North Shore Wednesday night, police said.
Officers found the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial on North Shore Drive near Heinz Field defaced with white spray paint around 9:45 p.m., according to Maurice Matthews, spokesman for the Pittsburgh Public Safety Department.
He said police are reviewing footage from surveillance cameras and investigating to see if the incident is related to the Memorial Day vandalism of a war memorial in Lawrenceville.
The Doughboy Statue at Doughboy Square in Lawrenceville was doused with red paint on Monday. The FBI and city police are investigating.
The police memorial was also vandalized earlier this year. Someone spray-painted it in late March.
The memorial pays tribute to law enforcement officers from Allegheny County who died in the line of duty. It includes the names of officers who served in Allegheny County and who grew up in the county but died elsewhere, according to a Facebook page for the memorial.
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