The Flagler County Sheriff's Office is investigating after racist graffiti was spray-painted on four homes in Palm Coast.

  • Graffiti on 4 homes in the R-section of Palm Coast
  • Words said "stay white," "WP" and 666
  • Flagler County deputies increased patrols in the area

Alan Borer lives on Rolling Sands Drive, just a few houses away from where vandals spray-painted slurs and symbols on some homes.

"It's wrong. I'm just shocked because this is a quiet neighborhood," said Borer, who has lived in the area for 14 years.

Flagler County deputies said the vandals hit four homes between Aug. 6 and Aug. 8 in the R-section of Palm Coast. The homes are on Rocking Horse Drive and Rolling Sands Drive.

The graffiti included "stay white," swastikas, "WP," 666 and other unknown symbols. People who live in the area said there was also a "three-point crown with an R letter" spray-painted in blue and black on some garages.

One victim's truck was also spray-painted and vandalized. The victim said he had no clue why anyone would do it, but now his white truck is in the shop for a new paint job and to fix a broken side-view mirror. He said the damage was more than $1,000.

Borer said the incident is even more concerning considering what happened during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

"It's crazy. Things are bad today — just look at what happened in Charlottesville yesterday," he said Sunday. "I'm not for that racial slurs and all that stuff, and we all have to live together."

One of the homes still had some graffiti on one side of the home because the person who owns it doesn't live in the area. Someone cleaned the racial slurs off the garage door, though.

Residents in the area said they plan to put up cameras.

"One neighbor told me he was going to put cameras around his house with a monitor," Borer said. "I might do the same."

Borer said it's situations like this graffiti vandalism that makes him want everyone to come together and forget hatred. He also wants the people responsible to be prosecuted.

"Someone gets prosecuted and they learn their lesson and maybe somebody else that's thinking about it won't do it," he said.

Flagler County deputies were out patrolling the area Sunday.

"It's unfortunate and I'm surprised, but I have my eyes open. I'm always looking," Borer said.