OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. — An Olive Branch woman was worried for her family’s safety after finding her tires slashed and a Confederate flag draped across her windshield.
The DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office is investigating, but Sheriff Bill Rasco would not classify this a hate crime yet.
He told WREG he wanted a more thorough investigation before deciding whether this was a hate crime.
But while deputies did come out to the woman’s home Tuesday morning, they did not process the car or take fingerprints.
Stars and Bars have the victim, Nancy Miller, seeing red.
“I couldn’t believe in my own yard, a place I’ve lived my entire life, that this would happen,” she said.
When Miller got up to take her son to school Tuesday morning, she found her car’s tires slashed and more disturbingly, what she viewed as a sign of hate thrown on her windshield.
“As I got to the front of the car, there was a Confederate flag just sitting on the windshield, and I was in complete shock,” she told WREG.
Miller said she has had no issues with anyone and received no other threats.
She filed a report with the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office, but deputies told her there was not enough damage to send crime scene techs out.
“I was kind of… Very upset about it,” Miller said. “There’s no action being taken.”
Miller said she has lived in this same house her whole life and never once felt afraid, until now.
“My property sits off of the road, and it does kind of make me nervous that they were brave enough to come into my driveway and sit there and vandalize my vehicle,” Miller said. “Will they come back? Will it happen again? What’s next?”
Sheriff Rasco said the car should have been processed when deputies went out this morning.
After learning from WREG that did not happen, he said he would send someone back out.
