It s been a rough day for Donnah Marvel of Somers Point.
You saw in Joe Kelly s post from last night that Donnah s son s memorial on New Road in Linwood was brutally destroyed. According to multiple eyewitnesses, the vandalism was deliberate and violent. I was able to head out to the memorial site earlier this morning to chat with Donnah and a family friend in an attempt to find out more information about what exactly happened.
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After talking with Donnah about the incident, I discovered how she found out about it in the first place. Donnah says she was arriving home from a nice day of shopping when she received a phone call from a friend who witnessed the incident in real time. Donnah then rushed to the site to find it completely destroyed. The cross that had her son s name imprinted into it was chucked over 20 feet away from where it originally stood. It s important to note that this cross is about 3.5-4 feet tall and was embedded a foot or two into the gro