S.C. Mayor Says ‘Yellow Sticky Substance’ on Her Car Was Sprayed by Vandals
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he mayor of a South Carolina town believed she was the target of a hate crime after cars belonging to her and her husband were dusted with a mysterious, “yellow, sticky substance.”
Local and state police investigated the claims made by Lamar Mayor Darnell Byrd McPherson, who reported that on February 7 at 10 p.m. local time, someone sprayed her 2017 Symphony Silver Hyundai Elantra Sport and her husband’s soft-top 1998 Buick Roadmaster with a residue outside of their home.
The material, she remembered, “got in all of the grooves” of her husband’s gray sedan.
The mayor had recently returned to her home from a meeting in the larger city of Hartsville, about 22 miles north of Lamar.
“My husband went out to the car to get some things out of the garage,” she told Newsweek. “He says, ‘Somebody’s painted your car!’”
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