Daily Mail
December 7, 2013
Investigators probing the racist spray painting last month of the small-town Massachusetts home of an eighth-grade football player are now focusing on the 13-year-old boy’s mother.
Andrea Brazier, mother of football player Isaac Phillips, is now being investigated as the sole suspect in a crime that shocked the town and nation when she blamed her son’s teammates for spray painting racist graffiti all over the family’s home.
‘Knights don’t need n*****s’ was found spray painted on the side of their Lunenburg home. The school cancelled the remainder of the Blue Knights’ season in response.
State and local officials have cleared the Lunenburg High School football team in the hate crime and are now focusing their efforts on Ms brazier, according to reports.
A Wednesday search of Ms Brazier and Mr Phillips’ home turned up cans of spray paint and multiple round of live ammunition, according to affidavit cited by the Boston Herald.
Federal agents also interrogated the embattled mother, and stated in the affidavit she wanted the investigation to end because she had committed the crime.
‘Andrea stated she had painted over the graffiti and that she wanted nothing further to do with the investigation,’ the affidavit said.
Mr Brazier even appeared to halfheartedly admit her guilt under further questioning.
‘Andrea was told by (an) FBI agent that she wanted the investigation to stop because she was the one who spray painted the graffiti on her house and Andrea stated ‘OK,’ thew affidavit continued.
She professed the innocence of both her son and husband Anthony Phillips before leaving the local police station in tears, said the affidavit. The teen’s mother is white and his father is half black.
Ms Brazier and Anthony Phillips refused an offer from authorities to remove the graffiti, the affidavit continued before adding that aerosol cans were found burnt in an outdoor fire pit.
No arrest is imminent, according to the Boston Globe, but cops are now working to compare the graffiti to handwriting samples.
‘Most of the leads that we have followed up throughout the investigation have led back toward the house,’ an official told the Globe.
Locals talking to the Globe expressed shock and disbelief over the allegations.
‘It’s pretty shocking, if it’s really his mom,’ said sophomore basketball player Sam Sargent. ‘If it’s true, she didn’t just put her son through a lot, she put this whole town through a lot.