Sacramento police seek 3 people in connection with racist vandalism at West Campus High

The Sacramento Police Department is seeking three people spotted on surveillance footage from West Campus High School in Fruitridge Manor, where racist graffiti was found early last month.

In a news release, the department said that the school property was vandalized with racial slurs on Nov. 4.

West Campus Principal John McMeekin previously said that the racially derogatory vandalism was directed at Assistant Principal Elysse Versher, who told The Sacramento Bee that she found the N-word written five times on a wall near her assigned parking spot on campus on the morning of Nov. 6.

Sacramento police said that investigators have reviewed “several hours” of surveillance footage and located three people who detectives are seeking to “identify and interview regarding this incident.”

A statement from McMeekin released after the graffiti was found said that Versher was also the victim of targeted social media harassment. Versher previously told The Bee that students were posting racist comments referring to her on social media as of Nov. 3, which included use of the N-word. The impetus for the social media attacks was her enforcement of the school’s dress code.

“This had nothing to do with the dress code but an opportunity for students to see that a Black woman has the audacity to make non-Black students uncomfortable and inconvenienced by enforcing the dress code,” Versher said after the graffiti was found.

Sacramento police are asking any witnesses to the hate crime to call dispatchers at 916-808-5471.