Lakeside Church vandalized with Islamic State messaging

Ontario Provincial Police are looking for suspects after a church was spray-painted with Islamic State messaging in Guelph-EramosaTownship.

Wellington OPP say they responded to a call at LakesideChurch Monday afternoon.

"Members [advised] that sometime overnight, unknown suspects had attended the church and did some spray-painting on the side of it," Const. Marylou Schwindt told CBC K-W.

According to an officer on the scene, someone started to write the words "Islamic State will rema[in]," in black spray paint on a wall outside the church.

Police say the vandals likely ran out of paint before they could complete the act.

The OPP's Forensic Identification Services is investigating this as a crime of mischief.