We have followed the story of the high school football team in Lunenburg, MA from the beginning. See our prior reports here and here.

As the investigation continues, it’s looking more and more like another racism hoax.

David Abel and John R. Ellement of the Boston Globe provide an update.

Police focus on victim’s mother in Lunenburg racist graffiti case

After telling police her house was spray-painted with racist graffiti, the mother of a former Lunenburg High School football player is now a “strong suspect” in the investigation of the incident, according to court records and police.

Andrea Brazier was questioned by local police and an FBI agent Nov. 25, according to a search warrant affidavit filed in Fitchburg District Court. During that interview, the FBI agent suggested that Brazier was pushing for the investigation to end because she was the one who had scrawled the graffiti on her family’s home, the affidavit said.

“Andrea stated ‘OK,’ ” according to the affidavit filed by Detective Jeffrey Thibodeau of the Lunenburg police. “Andrea just kept answering ‘OK’ and that she wanted everything to end and that we did not understand.”

Investigators searched the family’s home Tuesday, where they seized cans of spray paint.

At the Lunenburg Police Department Wednesday, Lieutenant Mike Luth said that Brazier was the only active suspect in the case and that his officers are working with the Worcester district attorney’s office and the US attorney’s office “to plan a course of action that’s best for the situation.” He said that an arrest was not imminent. Officials at the Worcester district attorney’s office declined to comment.

The discovery of the graffiti on Nov. 15 led school officials to cancel the football team’s season and stirred deep concerns in the town. But authorities have since said that the football team has been cleared.

“Most of the leads that we have followed up throughout the investigation have led back toward the house,” Luth said.

The graffiti, which included a racist slur, was first reported Nov. 15, by Brazier, who is white. Her husband, Anthony J. Phillips, is black, and their son, Isaac Phillips, who played on Lunenburg’s freshman and junior varsity teams, is biracial.