A College Area neighborhood is cleaning up after an overnight tagger damaged several properties.

Victims near San Diego State University say it happened between last Saturday and Sunday while everyone was asleep.

On Sunday morning, people living in the La Dorna Street neighborhood woke up to tags on their vehicles, streets and fences in orange paint. Some more ridiculous, like the word "honk" on the back of a black pickup, and some far more threatening like a racial slur strung across Ashley Papa’s fence.

“What is anybody gaining by doing something like that? We’re in 2025. Why are those words even being used?” Papa said.

Papa was working overnight Saturday. Neighbor Hollie Junell brought it to her attention.

"People don’t actually realize what’s going on in our neighborhood,” Junell

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