Police, neighbors concerned about paintball vandals

Clairton police say a group of people with ski masks on fired paintballs while driving down Farnsworth Avenue.

Splashes of paint can be seen on a few vacant homes and several utility poles.

But one mother says her young son received even worse treatment.

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"A car drove past and they threw a container of urine at him and his friends," said Valerie McKivitz. "To have somebody else's urine on him, it was disgusting."
 
It was supposed to be a normal walk home from the basketball court for her 9-year-old son Xavier, who has Asperger's syndrome.
 
"If anybody knows him, he's a sweetheart," she said.
 
But since the incident, she says he is traumatized. 
 
"He's not sleeping very well, he doesn't understand, like, why it happened," she said.

Police say the same group of guys who threw the urine have been driving up and down Farnsworth Avenue with ski masks on, firing paintball guns.

"It concerns me. You know there's a lot of little kids running around here," said neighbor Brett Biddle.
 
It's just one of several other problems keeping police busy on this stretch of road.
 
"When I first moved here, it was fantastic. You could leave your doors open at night," Biddle said. "You gotta live here. What can you do?"

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