John S. Hobart Elementary School defaced by racist, sexual graffiti

A cash reward will be paid to anyone who helps identify and find the four males who scrawled racist and sexual graffiti in a Shirley elementary school during the Rosh Hashanah holiday, Suffolk police said.

Cabinets and a whiteboard at the John S. Hobart Elementary School on Van Buren Street were defaced by the four, who were clad in dark clothes and had concealed their faces, at around 9:45 a.m. on Sept. 26, the police said.

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