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AdvertisementHeadstone of Hawkeye basketball player, Chris Street, vandalized family sayHide TranscriptShow TranscriptTHEM AS THEY CONTINUE TO CLEAN UP THE HAWKEYE LEGEND’S GRAVE. &gt;&gt; YOU CAN SEE THE TRAIL WHERE THEY TOSSED IT. SAND COMES ALL THE WAY FROM HERE. BEAU MIKE AND PATTY STREET ARE STILL FINDING BITS AND PIECES OF BROKEN TREE ORNAMENTS, VASES, AND DECORATIONS AROUND THE HEADSTONE BELONGING TO THEIR SON, CHRIS STREET, AN IOWA BASKETBALL PLAYER WHOSE LIFE WAS CUT SHORT IN 1993 IN AN IOWA CITY CAR CRASH OVER THE LAST 27 YEARS, MIKE AND PATTY HAVE KEPT THE MEMORIAL CLEAN AND DECORATED, A WAY FOR THEM TO KEEP CHRIS CLOSE. &gt;&gt; I HAVE THE EVERGREEN AROUND THE STONE, I HAVE LIGHTS, I HAVE OTHER CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS IN THE FRONT, A WREATH ALSO. BEAU: BUT WHEN SHE ARRIVED ON TUESDAY TO DECORATE FOR THE HOLIDAYS, PATTY FOUND HER FLOWERS HAD BEEN THROWN, THE TINY CHRISTMAS TREES RUINED, AND A FEW STATUES SMASHED. THE MOST FRUSTRATING PART OF IT ALL, NO OTHER DECORATIONS BELONGING TO CHRIS’ NEIGHBORS HAD BEEN TOUCHED. &gt;&gt; I LOOKED AROUND AND I DIDN’T SEE ANY DAMAGE TO ANYBO ELSE’S. I JUST WENT HOME VERY DISAPPOINTED, JUST NO ENERGY. BEAU: THE STREETS SAID THEY’VE HAD SIMILAR INCIDENTS LIKE THIS HAPPEN IN THE PAST BUT NOTHING OF THIS MAGNITUDE. THEY SAY THEY’VE FILED A REPORT WITH THE INDIANOLA POLICE DEPARTMENT TO POSSIBLY PUT AN END TO IT. &gt;&gt; I HOPE TO CATCH THEM OR AT LEAST DETER THEM IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE ENOUGH’S ENOUGH. BEAU: REGARDLESS IF SOMEONE IS CAUGHT, MIKE AND PATTY WILL CONTINUE TO TAKE OF CHRIS AND HIS FINAL RESTING PLACE. BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT PARENTSAdvertisementHeadstone of Hawkeye basketball player, Chris Street, vandalized family sayLate Tuesday afternoon, Patty Street was devastated to find decorations surrounding her son's gravestone destroyed. Her son, Chris, was a basketball player at the University of Iowa in the early 1990s before he was killed in a car accident 27 years ago. Since then, Patty and her husband, Mike, have kept the memorial clean and decorated — a way for them to keep Chris close."I have the evergreen around the stone, and I have lights; I have other Christmas decorations like in the front and a wreath also," Patty Street said as she described her son's grave before it was vandalized.When she arrived on Tuesday to decorate for the holidays, Patty found her flowers had been thrown, the tiny Christmas trees ruined, and a few statues smashed. The most frustrating part of it all is that no other decorations belonging to Chris' neighbors had been touched.As Mike and Patty Street spoke to KCCI on Saturday, heartbroken by the acts of destruction toward their late son, they continued to find shards of clay that were once statues guarding their son's final resting place. Patty found one Christmas ornament completely intact, a cowboy hat with "CMS" (Chris' initials) written in Sharpie on the bottom commemorating the Hawkeye star's love for riding horses. The Streets said they've had smaller incidents like this happen in the past but nothing of this magnitude. They say they've filed a report with the Indianola Police Department to possibly put an end to it.Late Tuesday afternoon, Patty Street was devastated to find decorations surrounding her son's gravestone destroyed. Her son, Chris, was a basketball player at the University of Iowa in the early 1990s before he was killed in a car accident 27 years ago. Since then, Patty and her husband, Mike, have kept the memorial clean and decorated — a way for them to keep Chris close."I have the evergreen around the stone, and I have lights; I have other Christmas decorations like in the front and a wreath also," Patty Street said as she described her son's grave before it was vandalized.AdvertisementWhen she arrived on Tuesday to decorate for the holidays, Patty found her flowers had been thrown, the tiny Christmas trees ruined, and a few statues smashed. The most frustrating part of it all is that no other decorations belonging to Chris' neighbors had been touched.As Mike and Patty Street spoke to KCCI on Saturday, heartbroken by the acts of destruction toward their late son, they continued to find shards of clay that were once statues guarding their son's final resting place. Patty found one Christmas ornament completely intact, a cowboy hat with "CMS" (Chris' initials) written in Sharpie on the bottom commemorating the Hawkeye star's love for riding horses. The Streets said they've had smaller incidents like this happen in the past but nothing of this magnitude. They say they've filed a report with the Indianola Police Department to possibly put an end to it.Loading more articles...

AdvertisementHeadstone of Hawkeye basketball player, Chris Street, vandalized family sayHide TranscriptShow TranscriptTHEM AS THEY CONTINUE TO CLEAN UP THE HAWKEYE LEGEND’S GRAVE. &gt;&gt; YOU CAN SEE THE TRAIL WHERE THEY TOSSED IT. SAND COMES ALL THE WAY FROM HERE. BEAU MIKE AND PATTY STREET ARE STILL FINDING BITS AND PIECES OF BROKEN TREE ORNAMENTS, VASES, AND DECORATIONS AROUND THE HEADSTONE BELONGING TO THEIR SON, CHRIS STREET, AN IOWA BASKETBALL PLAYER WHOSE LIFE WAS CUT SHORT IN 1993 IN AN IOWA CITY CAR CRASH OVER THE LAST 27 YEARS, MIKE AND PATTY HAVE KEPT THE MEMORIAL CLEAN AND...

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