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Just days after the completion of a huge $15,000 wall mural meant to beautify an Ottawa Street building, vandals defaced the artwork overnight Wednesday with a white spray paint graffiti spree.

Mural artist David Derkatz — who goes by the moniker DERKZ — received a text from the owner of Mister HQ across the street from Lanspeary Park Thursday morning telling him that the work the pair put six months of “blood, sweat and tears” into had been ruined.

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“I was kind of in shock at the moment,” said Derkatz.

“They vandalized the whole scene, crossed it out, put lines around the building, and his business was vandalized, parts of his business were spray painted as well. They kind of did a 360 vandalization of this building.”

The graffiti also included the word BANDIT and the initials THC.

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The mural covers a 30-foot-by-75-foot span on the west side of the building with a wildlife motif, and a 20-by-90-foot expanse across the back with Roman and Greek god and goddess-inspired figures.