From The Chronicle, Duke’s student newspaper:

Three crosses were burned in separate locations in Durham late Wednesday evening, Durham Police Department officers reported. Ku Klux Klan fliers were also found at one location, police told The Associated Press.

DPD Lieutenant Kevin Cates classified the cross burnings as a “hate crime.”

“It is too early into [the investigation] to tell if it is actually directed at one person or one group,” Cates said. “We just have to wait and see.”

According to a DPD press release, the first incident was reported at 9:19 p.m. near St. Luke’s Episcopal Church at 1737 Hillandale Road. Officers and firefighters responded to a second call a half-hour later near the intersection of South Roxboro Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. Officials found a cross burning on a hill near a construction site. A third cross was reported in a field near Holloway and Dillard Streets at 10:28 p.m. No injuries were reported.