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DECATUR — The Macon County Sheriff's Appointment is investigating ancestral slurs spray-painted on two pillars on the Rock Springs Attention Breadth bike aisle abreast Fairview Park.
Decatur Esplanade Commune agents were notified of the adventure Monday night and corrective over the graffiti, which included the belletrist "KKK" and the N-word, aboriginal Tuesday, admiral said. It is not accepted back the abuse took place, but Sheriff's Lt. Jamie Belcher said it acceptable happened at night back no one was about to the see the bodies who did it.
The Macon County Attention Commune owns the property, but the pillars abutment a aqueduct that belongs to the Sanitary Commune of Decatur. Its controlling director, Kent Newton, said Tuesday that caliginosity is about back bodies go to the esplanade and attention areas to aerosol acrylic on arch underpasses, trails and avenue lines.
The armpit is "under the bike path, so the accessible is on there on a circadian basis, and they would address to us — I would achievement — article that's offensive," Newton said.
It wasn't until afterwards 7 p.m. Monday, back associates of the Greater Decatur Black Chamber of Commerce saw the graffiti while on a airing in the area, that the adventure was reported. Chairman Jacob Jenkins said he was abashed to see the abuse with bodies adjacent at the time.
"I was mortified, because no one was (reacting) — there were kids arena beneath than a hundred yards from the trail, and there were families walking up and bottomward this trail," Jenkins said.
Park commune Police Chief Ed Culp commended Bill Hunt, the esplanade commune agent who begin the graffiti and covered it up immediately.
"We strive circadian to accommodate a abundant affection of life, and we don't appetite benightedness actuality beheld to the park. It's not who we are," Culp said.
Jenkins said his acrimony over the adventure is not so abundant the act and the bulletin of the graffiti, but the abstraction that bodies absolved by and did nothing.
"I wasn't the alone being on this trail," he said.
There are no accepted suspects, Belcher said. Anyone with advice is asked to alarm the sheriff's appointment at (217) 424-1311 or Crime Stoppers at (217) 423-8477.
