Man charged with hate crime at University of Missouri

COLUMBIA, Mo. – An 18-year-old man faces a preliminary hearing this month on a hate crime charge after a University of Missouri residence hall was vandalized.

Bonne County authorities charged Bradley M. Becker with second-degree property damage motivated by discrimination after the vandalism at the Mark Twain Residence Hall.

A swastika was burned into the ceiling of a stairwell twice in April and someone once wrote “You have been warned.”

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports Becker’s attorney, Columbia-based Jeffrey Hilbrenner, was not available for comment Tuesday.

Becker is listed in an online directory as a freshman health science major.

The preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 23.

This story was originally published June 3, 2015 at 8:09 AM with the headline "Man charged with hate crime at University of Missouri."