Family saddened by vandalism to Hancock memorial

A memorial for teen DJ Hancock was vandalized over the weekend.

According to DJ's mother Kim's Facebook post, on April 2 she found the site left disheveled with toppled chairs, hockey sticks thrown around and items missing.

"Many times we are there and we see his friends or someone who knew him just sitting in their cars," Kim Hancock said in her Facebook post. "It is a place for all of us to go and remember DJ."

She said discovering the vandalism left her sick to her stomach at the level of disrespect the incident shows toward her son's family and friends, who have had to go on without him in their lives.

Hancock was just 18 and on his way home from hockey practice Aug. 21, 2014, when he was killed on Highway 17 in a collision with a drunk driver. The memorial, set up with a cross, weight bench, hockey sticks and various other sports paraphernalia, was moved in December to a site near Countryside Arena.

"What kind of person or people do this in memory of a child who was killed by a drunk driver," Kim concluded in her Facebook post.