AZLE — A high school locker room was defaced, and parents want to know who was responsible.
Sometime after Azle's homecoming game on Friday, the visitors' locker room was sprayed with a yellow, sticky, smelly liquid — and almost everyone assumes the worst.
Azle parents want someone punished, but the two schools are moving on to the next football game.
Azle's 9th grade boys locker room had an extra pungent smell when it was unlocked on Monday afternoon. A distinct odor emanated from about half a dozen lockers.
"We took a look in those lockers, and there were clothes that were stained with a yellow substance," said Azle ISD Director of Administration Ray Ivey. "Unknown to us to this day what it really was."
The Azle ISD won't say it was urine, but parents who cleaned the lockers said there can be no doubt.
One student's mother told News 8 urine was "all over the Azle locker room, the walls, floors, the freshman lockers (inside and out), and the freshman clean practice clothes." She's convinced Timber Creek is to blame.
Azle ISD said Keller's Timber Creek varsity football team was the last group to have used the locker room on Friday night after Azle won the homecoming game 56-21.
A Keller ISD spokesperson said the Timber Creek coach interviewed several players, and no one was aware of anyone urinating in the lockers.
The district's athletic director told News 8 that after Keller ISD's investigation, there was no indication that KISD students were involved in any misconduct. Nor was there evidence that the alleged incident even took place as reported.
Azle ISD administrators say that's good enough for them.
"Most of it dried; some of it a little damp. But nothing we could say that's urine," Ivey said. "We never found that."
The district said the locker room was locked after the game, and it's unlikely anyone got in over the holiday weekend — but Azle will not blame Timber Creek. It doesn't want the stink to follow them through the rest of football season.
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