Two cases of racially charged graffiti at a high school in upscale Agoura Hills are being investigated by a hate crime unit, Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department officials said.<\/p>\n
Deputies were reviewing surveillance footage and providing extra patrols on Thursday around Agoura High School, where officials found racist graffiti against black students on Sunday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The scrawls were first discovered on Sunday on at least 10 buildings on the campus, which has 31 African-American students among a largely white student body of 2,150, according to school officials.<\/p>\n
Some parents said they were not initially notified about the graffiti, which was quickly painted over.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, school officials found more graffiti in the boys\u2019 bathroom that named five individual black students\u2019 names alongside threats.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like they were not valuing my son\u2019s life or his well-being. And if you\u2019re not going to communicate to me and tell me what the possible threat is \u2014 we\u2019re talking about deadly force here. We\u2019re talking about a hit list being put on a wall. Of course I was going to be very upset about that,\u201d said parent Ron Cash, whose child is an African-American student at the campus.<\/p>\n
Cash\u2019s son was not targeted, but his friend was. Cash and his wife Gina Aubrey were concerned.<\/p>\n