Vandals Destroy 70 Gravestones in Alabama Cemetery

By NBC News

Credit: Kelly Kazek / The Huntsville Times

Nearly 70 gravestones in Hatchett Cemetery in Tanner were overturned or broken by unknown vandals.

November 12, 2012 Updated Nov 12, 2012 at 10:49 AM PDT

Officials in Alabama are searching for unknown vandals who they say overturned or broke nearly 70 gravestones in a cemetery sometime last week, al.com reported.

Limestone County Sheriff Capt. Stanley McNatt told NBC News that the desecration affected nearly 70 percent of the tombstones at Hatchett Cemetery in Tanner, Ala..

Members of the Little Ezekiel Missionary Baptist Church, which maintains the cemetery, suspect the incident occurred sometime between Wednesday and Friday of last week.

“It’s just sickening,” Howard Mosley, who said the headstones of his parents, aunts and uncles were included in the vandalism, told al.com.

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