By Marshall Weiss, The Dayton Jewish Observer

A jogger at Indian Riffle Park in Kettering called the Kettering Police Department when she saw chalk drawings of swastikas and the phrase, “KILL YOURSELF, JEWS,” on the trail near the park’s playground at 10:40 a.m., Sunday, March 30.

According to Kettering Police Department notes, the caller said she saw “three young teen boys” —approximately 13 or 14 years old — in the area. One asked her if she liked their artwork.

The police notes also indicated that 23 minutes later, three youths — two males and one female — attempted to cover up the hate language and swastikas with chalk.

That afternoon, Kettering resident Melissa Groveman emailed The Observer images of three swastikas drawn in chalk that she and her daughter saw at that location.

Groveman said it appeared someone had altered the swastikas, closing off the open areas in different colors of chalk.

“I think it’s great that someone took the time to change it,” she said.

All that remained of the phrase “KILL YOURSELF, JEWS,” she said, was the word, ‘YOURSELF.”

The word “KILL” had been crossed out in chalk and the word “JEWS’ was gone.

Groveman said someone had written the letter L in chalk above where the word “KILL” had been crossed out, and that her daughter turned it into the word “LOVE.”