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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – A Midlands teen is now being charged with a hate crime in connection with a burglary investigation. <\/p>\n
The Richland County Sheriff\u2019s Department said the 13-year-old suspect, who was not identified due to their age, is being charged under the county\u2019s hate crime ordinance,<\/a> along with counts of third-degree burglary and malicious injury to property. <\/p>\n RCSD said deputies first responded to the burglary on May 14 at a vacant home on Coatesdale Road. A witness reportedly told authorities that they arrived at the home to check on the property for the owner when they noticed a bicycle outside and two minors running from the home. <\/p>\n RCSD said the inside of the home had extensive damage, including large holes in the walls, a door that had been kicked in and several broken windows. The scene inside also included several graffiti spray-painted messages containing racial slurs and antisemitic messaging that included the use of swastikas. <\/p>\n The sheriff\u2019s department also provided photos from the scene, which WIS has altered to censor the offensive messaging.<\/a><\/p>\n The 13-year-old was later found at a home nearby after deputies spoke with other witnesses and matched a description provided. Paint cans were also found at the teen\u2019s home during a search warrant. <\/p>\n RCSD said the teen was taken to the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice, but authorities are still working to identify the second suspect. <\/p>\n Anyone with information is asked to call RCSD at 803-576-3000 or CrimeStoppers at 1-888-CRIME-SC. <\/p>\n Feel more informed, prepared, and connected with WIS. For more free content like this, subscribe to our <\/i>email newsletter<\/i><\/a>, and <\/i>download our apps<\/i><\/a>.<\/i> Have feedback that can help us improve? <\/i>Click here<\/i><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Copyright 2026 WIS. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – A Midlands teen is now being charged with a hate crime in connection with a burglary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-wistv-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/LUESLWPSVBB65FQB4UVUIXVFQY.jpg?auth=eb66eca7de8a06efff590fca2e1ae285105f41dfd29d355ec85ad35c21d66bfd&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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