For the past three weeks, a Garland resident has experienced a string of criminal mischief that she believes is racially motivated.

The crimes include rocks thrown through her windows, fireworks set off on her porch, and graffiti of lewd images and racial slurs on the pavement.

The incidents began July 16, when someone set off fireworks on Jehrika Summerhill's porch on Wymess Drive, near Broadway Boulevard and Wynn Joyce Road, then rang the doorbell before running off.

Several days later, a landscaping rock was thrown through one of her windows, Garland police spokesman Alberto Irizarry said.

Early Saturday, Summerhill awoke to the sound of breaking glass at 4 a.m., according to a Facebook post she wrote that morning. Another rock had been thrown through her window, and she had a cut on her arm from the glass.

Later that day, Summerhill also alerted the police to what she called "hate graffiti" that had been painted about 90 yards from her home, Irizarry said.

Posted by Jehrika Summerhill on Saturday, August 4, 2018

Her Facebook post also included surveillance video from the fireworks incident.

"There's no anger or fear... just nervousness. At this point safety is forefront," Summerhill wrote in the post. "Changes will be made for my children's safety but I'll never be afraid of being black or being a woman. I wasn't raised to be ashamed."

She said her two children were out of town when the incidents occurred.

Garland police don't have a definitive link between the incidents but are working all three cases jointly.

Summerhill said in an email that she is worried that the events are escalating but is hopeful that with the help of police and the community, the crimes will come to an end.

"I'm really just hoping for this to all be over with and not have to worry if someone is lurking outside my home," she said.