Walnut Creek home vandalized with homophobic inconvenience

WALNUT CREEK, California (CROWN) – A family from Walnut Creek says they are scratching their heads after their home was vandalized three times this week.

They say someone threw toilet paper and eggs, and even saran wrapped their bushes.

The family said it spent more than 4 hours this week cleaning up outside their home because of these incidents and it is with several people working at the same time.

To begin with, Melissa Stephens says she thought this vandalism was just a joke.

She says it first happened Monday night, then it happened again Tuesday.

She says it was escalating.

The third night, the messages became hateful and destructive.

Stephens says she does not know why they would write a homophobic remark in front of her home.

Stephens says the first night that they were out with the dogs around 6 p.m. 23. Her son came home around noon. 12.30.

Once in a while, the vandals hit the home.

“I talked to my neighbor, we’ve been here for 7 years, he’s been here for 30, and he shared with me that he’s never seen anything like it,” Stephens said.

Some of the lawn lights in the home were broken. The family will have to get new lamps and get the wires fixed, which may cost them about a thousand dollars.

Stephens filed a report with the Walnut Creek Police Department.