Eagle Grove Police ask for the public’s help in solving racist graffiti (UPDATED)
September 9th, 2025 by Ric Hanson
(Radio Iowa) – No arrests have been made after a monument in north-central Iowa was defaced. Vandals were responsible for spray-painting swastikas and racial slurs on a monument honoring an Eagle Grove Boy Scout late Sunday night and early Monday morning.
Eagle Grove Police made the discovery while on patrol at a city park. The monument honors the memory of Aaron Eilerts, the scout who was killed in a tornado along with three other scouts at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch in June of 2008. The vandals also spray painted a portable toilet and a building at the park.
Neighbors with security cameras are being asked to check their footage.

