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A 75-year-old U.S. military veteran and business owner from Ozark awoke to find his vehicles vandalized.
The vandals left profane messages and racial slurs directed at religious persons, law enforcement officers and African Americans. The tires on two vehicles were slashed, and the vandals put radiator leak stopping solution into the gas tanks, rendering them unable to be driven.
Considering all he has been through in the past six months, the vandalism is difficult for Michael Russell to take. He and his wife, Cheri, live on a Missouri Century Farm that the Russell family has owned since 1824. It s not about what was said in the hate-filled messages, but the overall discouragement that the vandalism happened in the first place.