Akron police say this man was caught by a camera defecating on someone's car. At least 18 neighbors have reported that someone pooped on their car since 2012.

AKRON, Ohio -- The Akron man who set up a camera to find out who had defecated seven different times on his daughter's car got the perfect shot on Tuesday.

It shows a man with his pants down, squatting over the hood of the car and looking directly at the camera. Akron police say the man has pooped on at least 19 other Kenmore residents' cars since 2012. Several of those residents said that they believed they were being targeted by an unknown tormenter.

Akron police are working to identify the man after the resident of a Cory Street home, an Akron city worker, decided to find out who was responsible.

The photographer, who did not want to be named because the suspect is at-large and he fears retaliation against his family, said he has never seen the suspect before.

"He messed with the wrong guy," the man said during an interview in his driveway on Wednesday.

Other residents also said they didn't know the man after the photo surfaced on Wednesday. The city worker, an amateur photographer with a sophisticated camera, said Oct. 27 was the first time someone defecated on his daughter's car.

He said he initially thought a family member was being targeted because of a divorce or that it could have been neighborhood kids putting dog feces on the car.

But it happened six more times. On Feb. 10, the city worker became fed up.

"I'm getting hot by this time," the man said. "We got a sicko on our hands and I was determined at that point to catch him."

The man set up his camera to take photos every 12 seconds throughout the night for about two weeks. The camera shot more than 30,000 photos but came up empty -- until about 4:15 a.m. Tuesday.

"We expected to see someone we knew," the man said. "Then we found out that this happened to a lot of our neighbors. This guy needs help. Big time. We have to put a stop to it."