Man wearing 'I [heart] Jesus' hat breaks into church to rip Bibles, defaces walls with spray paint

Rev. Dennis Green of the Ironbridge Church in Chester, Va., was shocked after a man wearing a hat with an “I [heart] Jesus” logo defaced the church.

The suspect — a white male in his late 20s, about 6 feet tall , with dark hair and a full beard – allegedly ripped pages from Bibles, smashed a glass window, and spray-painted the walls, according to local Richmond, Va., news station WTVR.

The Ironbridge Church served as a polling place on Election Day, but according to Rev. Green, the electronic system in the church was faulty and didn’t correctly re-lock one of the doors. Surveillance footage from Tuesday evening captured a male suspect making his way to the unlocked door, walking in and grabbing Bibles, WTVR reported.

Police don’t believe it was a random attack.

“I hurt for the brothers and sisters at Ironbridge,” Rev. Gordon Mapes of the Chester Presbyterian Church told WTVR. Mapes’s church, just four miles from Ironbridge, has been vandalized four times in just eight days since Oct. 27. Rev. Mapes says that one day they arrived at the church to find a door forced open and the floor lamp lights were smashed. He added, “An American flag was lit on fire, that belonged to the Boy Scouts.”

It is not known if the vandalism at the two churches is connected.

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