Vandals Splatter Black Paint on Personalized Parking Spots

Joshua HS Seniors spent Labor Day hard at work fixing the damage

Several dozen seniors at Joshua High School spent hours hard at work on Labor Day fixing damage done by vandals.

“I was pretty mad because I put all this time and work into it. And then someone comes up and decides to vandalize it,” said Erick Lemke, a Joshua High Senior about the black paint he found splattered all over the personalized parking spot he spent the weekend painting. “It’s not really a funny joke.”

Lemke is far from alone.

More than 100 students at Joshua High School paid for the right to paint their parking spots, part of a fundraiser called “Spot On” at the school.

“They probably need to grow up,” Valles said to NBCDFW about whoever is responsible for the damage done to nearly all of the painted spots. “If vandalizing someone else’s hard work is what they feel like is fun, then they need to reevaluate their life.”

Vandalism done on school property is a state jail felony, according to Joshua police.

Officers were called to the school around sunrise Monday when parent Kristi Klund, who had helped to organize the fundraiser, first discovered the black paint everywhere.

“As the kids came out here slowly, they all were in shock,” Klund said about students who heard about their hard work being ruined. “They all had that moment of shock at their spot, that they’d spent all that time on, all that money with their parents, you know? It was messed up.”

But instead of accepting defeat, Klund told NBCDFW she was proud of how the students responded to the bad news.

“Within 45 minutes there were probably over 100 people out here and everyone was jumping in and saying, ‘We’re just gonna make this positive. We’re not gonna let them mess up what we’re trying to do here for the senior class,'” Klund said.

A Joshua High parent is offering a reward of $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of the person, or persons, responsible for the vandalism.

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