Saturday, April 26, 2008

Fort Wayne AIDS Memorial Damaged By Vandals

by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff

(Fort Wayne, Indiana) Sections of a memorial to people in the Fort Wayne area who have died as a result of HIV/AIDS have been toppled and badly damaged.

A stone pedestal that supported a statue of an angel was pushed over, and the statue smashed.

The vandalism was discovered by Otis Vincent who created the memorial after his son died of AIDS in 1995. He has spent the past four years working on the memorial in Lindenwood Cemetery.

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