LOS ANGELES – A shocking hate crime left a View Park family destabilized and disgusted after their home and cars were painted with racist graffiti.

The ominous messages are still scrawled here on the sidewalk and they were also scrawled all over this gate, but you can see they have since been painted black.

This family has lived here since 1990. They say they have never seen anything like it.

“My whole body shut down. I had no way of speaking. All I could do was cry,” Elizabeth Garbutt said.

She says she’s still in shock after waking up to the racist graffiti.

“One of the messages on the sidewalk was ‘—– die.’ This is the one that really got to me. I walked to my car. It said “stupid —-“. Then we moved on to the next one. – house”. The next one said “die”. The door said “idiot —–“. And the spelling isn’t even correct.”

The Garbutts have lived in this house across from Crenshaw High School for more than 30 years and have never experienced anything like this.

Elizabeth says seeing her daughter Elyse’s reaction was the most nerve-wracking part.

“When she came out and looked at her car, I see her hurt, her pain. Like, ‘Why is this happening to me?’ And “who would do that?”

It happened on Halloween night, out of view of surrounding security cameras.

“There needs to be some type of change within our community,” Elyse said.

She now worries about the safety of her family and society as a whole.

“We’re about to be 2025, and it’s devastating that we’re still dealing with this kind of thing. We’re all human. We all bleed the same way,” she said.

Fortunately, they were able to clean the hate messages from their cars and repaint their gate. But the graffiti on the sidewalk constantly reminds us of it.

“I’ve lived here since she was a baby… 35 years old. And being afraid to be in your own house is not a good thing. It’s very stressful. I don’t understand why. Why our house was reason.”

As of now, they still have absolutely no idea who this person(s) is who did this.

This was not picked up by any security cameras present in the area, as none were specifically pointed at where any of this happened.

They filed a police report and are also trying to get the attention of Mayor Karen Bass.

They just hope no one else has to go through what they’re going through right now.

And again, they just want this vandal(s) caught.