The Brief
- A famous Confederate monument at the Brandon Family Cemetery was vandalized, with one of the marble soldiers’ heads cut off.
- Hillsborough County deputies are investigating and believe the vandalism happened between Sept. 5 and Sept. 15.
- This is the same statue that used to be located at the Hillsborough County Courthouse, before it was moved in 2017.
BRANDON, Fla. – Hillsborough County deputies are investigating after someone cut the head off one of two soldiers on a Confederate monument at the Brandon Family Cemetery.
Brandon cemetery statue decapitated
What we know:
Hillsborough County deputies are searching for answers after someone cut the head off a marble soldier at the Brandon Family Cemetery. The damaged statue stands roughly 10 to 15 feet off the ground on a multi-figure monument.
The person who reported the vandalism also told FOX 13 there had been graffiti on the monument. That graffiti appears to have since been removed.…