One week after a Davis woman was sentenced to five years’ probation for vandalizing the Islamic Center of Davis, police are investigating a new incident — this one involving shredded pages of the Quran thrown at the mosque from a moving car during Ramadan prayers Friday evening.

The center was targeted again Saturday afternoon, when someone slashed the tires on a bike parked at the Russell Boulevard mosque sometime between 1 and 1:30 p.m., according to a Davis police report filed Monday.

“We’re following up on it, trying to get surveillance video,” Lt. Tom Waltz said of the vandalism, which has been classified as a hate crime.

The earlier incident, which is being investigated as a hate incident, occurred shortly before 11 p.m. on Friday night, said Davis Police Sgt. Dan Powell.

Adults were inside the Islamic Center for prayer at the time, according to Powell, but children playing outside discovered what appeared to be a large amount of cut-up paper containing text from the Quran in front of the mosque and on the street. The paper did not appear to be ripped from a Quran, Powell said; rather it appeared to be text that was printed out on computer paper before being cut up into pieces and thrown at the mosque from a moving car.

No one witnessed the incident, Powell said, but police have examined surveillance video that provided some clues.

According to that video, at about 10:40 p.m., a dark blue, four-door vehicle was seen travelling west on Russell Boulevard past the Islamic Center. Shortly afterward, a light-colored minivan drove past and scraps of paper could be seen swirling around the van as it drove by.

What isn’t clear, Powell said, is if the paper had been thrown from the blue sedan and was only seen on the surveillance video as the van drove past, or if the paper came from another source.

No license plates were visible on either vehicle, Powell added.

The incident followed by one week the sentencing of Lauren Kirk-Coehlo for her vandalism of the Islamic Center of Davis in January.

Kirk-Coehlo was sentenced to five years’ probation for shattering six windows, vandalizing several bicycles and leaving strips of raw bacon on the mosque property.

That she walked free following sentencing last Friday upset some members of the Islamic Center.

Mohamed Kheiter, treasurer of the center’s board of trustees, told the Enterprise that while he forgives Kirk-Coehlo and wants to see her rehabilitated, he feared her release might inspire similar crimes “because in the end they walk out.”

“That’s the message. It gives them the green light to do something like that,” Kheiter said following the sentencing.

That January hate crime galvanized the Davis community, leading to an outpouring of support, with hundreds of people gathering in Central Park days later to show their solidarity with the Muslim community.

The same was occurring this weekend after the most recent incident.

Statement of Love, a Davis-based group that organized the Central Park gathering in January, quickly organized another event in front of the mosque Saturday night for community members to show their support for the center and its members.

Saturday, noted Kate Mellon-Anibaba (founder of Statement of Love), is Eid al-Fitr, which is the celebration of the end of Ramadan.

“Our Muslim brothers and sisters will be breaking their fast for the last time before Ramadan comes to an end,” she posted on Facebook. “Let’s show our Muslim community that we are here for them and that hate has no place in our town.”

Meanwhile, as Davis police continue to investigate Friday’s incident at the Islamic Center of Davis, law enforcement in Sacramento were investigating another such incident.

Early Saturday, someone burned a Quran and attached it with handcuffs to a chain-link fence in the parking lot of the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, according to the Sacramento Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

The sheriff’s department is located next to the Masjid Annur Islamic Center in South Sacramento.

— Reach Anne Ternus-Bellamy at [email protected] or 530-747-8051. Follow her on Twitter at @ATernusBellamy.