Originally posted by Local12

LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, Ohio (WKRC) - Two families in Liberty Township want answers after someone spray-painted swastikas on their garages early Thursday morning.

One house even had a car vandalized in the same orange and black paint.

The two families live six minutes away from one another. They said they didn't know each other until a Butler County Sheriff's deputy told one of them that there was another graffitied house. The orange and black spray paint match, and both had profane language.

Neighbors have some security footage, but they're asking for the public's help catching who did this.

Misty Nelson said her house was spray painted with a black swastika and orange genitalia on her family's garage door. A Butler County deputy saw it first.

"I thought maybe I had left my garage door open. He said, 'No, ma'am. There's a lot of graffiti on your garage.' So, I walk out and I see it, and I am just lost for words because I don't understand why that happened," said Nelson.

She said her daughter didn't see the graffiti when she got home late, so Nelson suspects it happened between 4 and 6 a.m. Nelson has been talking with neighbors all day to see if anyone's cameras caught the vandals.

"I can't get the other stuff off yet. So, I'm trying to figure out different solutions without me having to repaint my whole garage and having to spend money on an incident that I shouldn't have to be worried about right now," Nelson said

A couple of streets over, another house was targeted, but worse. The Bacons had a car, their garage, and their house egged. The damage was so severe that the car had to be towed because someone put eggshells in the gas tank.

"I believe it was very well targeted because there's no other house in this subdivision that has this kind of damage, and this has never happened here before," Nelson said.

The Bacons said police fingerprinted a remaining eggshell, but it wasn't successful. Both families said they're baffled as to why anyone would do this.

"That's so disrespectful, and so, I don't even have words for it; it's disgusting. That's what it is. It's disgusting," said Nelson.

The Anti-Defamation League said it's looking into the swastika and other symbols. A spokeswoman said one of the other symbols could be two 8's put together, which is a white supremacist symbol.

Local 12 will follow up with the Butler County Sheriff's Office to see if this is being investigated as a hate crime.