A Brevard County man is furious and living in fear after a racial slur was found burned into his lawn.
Courtney Gordon, of Palm Bay, said it's the latest incident of what he calls harassment he has faced, and he doesn't even know why.
"I don't know what I did to deserve this," said Gordon. "I don't mess with anybody. I just go to church and do what I got to do."
Gordon said he was out running errands Saturday when he got a call from his lawn man. When he got back home, he found the "N-word" in 3-foot-tall letters burned into the grass in his yard with some type of chemical. It had been done the night before.
"It wasn't a one-minute job, because the letters were neatly done and wide," Gordon noted.
Gordon said he called police, and an officer responded. He told the officer he has surveillance cameras, but they were not working at the time of the vandalism.
Police told Gordon it's a tough crime to prove unless the perpetrator confesses.
Gordon had his lawn man cut the grass very low to remove the slur, but the reminder of it is still burned in his mind.
It's just the latest issue Gordon said he's had since last October, about a year after he moved into his home. He said packages delivered to his home have been opened, and his outside air conditioning unit was damaged.
"It was open, the box was crushed. They left it on the front of the house," Gordon said, describing one package mailed to him.
Gordon said he doesn't have a problem with his neighbors, but he thinks he knows who might be behind the deeds.
For now, Gordon, a Brooklyn transplant who came to a normally quiet area of Palm Bay for a peaceful life, is getting nothing like that.
“Sometimes people don't like you because you're tall, black, ugly, green, yellow, whatever. They just don't like you for something that God gave you," he said.
If you have any information about this incident, contact Palm Bay police at (321) 952-3459.