ODENTON, Md. -- An Anne Arundel County woman said she woke up to an upsetting sight last weekend -- racial and sexual slurs written all over the outside of her house.
Virginia Trotter lives in the 2000 block of Brigadier Boulevard in Odenton. She said that last Sunday, her neighbors told her that there was offensive writing all over her house.
"This is awful. It's terrible," she said. "I didn’t think I had neighbors in the area that would do such a thing."
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Trotter said that she has lived at the home for 17 years and said she'd never had problems before.
Sexual images and racial slurs were written all over her home. But police said the incident is not being investigated as a hate crime because both the victim and the alleged suspects are black.
A female witness told police that she saw four black teens fleeing the scene. Police said they believe neighborhood rivalries were the reason behind it and said because of that, it's being considered vandalism and not a hate crime.
But Trotter disagreed. She said she thought hate crimes were defined by what crime was committed, not by which color the culprits were.
"Red, green, orange -- I don't care what color. I think they should be prosecuted for it," she said. "I take it very personal."
Trotter's home was one of several hit in the neighborhood, police said. Investigators are still looking for the culprits.
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