Woman left shaken after finding hate-filled letter in mailbox outside her new home
A Philadelphia woman was left shaken after she discovered a hate-filled letter in the mailbox of her new home.
Connie Mella recently moved into a new house in the Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pa., with her mother, her husband, and her 7-year-old daughter, local Philadelphia news station WPVI-TV reports. When she opened the mailbox on Thursday morning, she found a note addressed to “our new neighbor.” But the letter’s contents were anything but welcoming.
The note starts off by saying, “if any of you understand English, which is spoken here in this country, then all of you in this house better pay close attention.”
“We do not intend to put up with any type of (expletive) (expletive) from your kind of sub-human species.”
The author of the note warns: “If you make a lot of noise with your music, your trucks, vans, cars or kids we intend to firebomb your house.”
Mella, whose family hails from the Dominican Republic, is an American citizen and has lived in the United States for nearly two decades, according to local Philadelphia news station WCAU. She was distraught over the letter once she understood her family could be in danger. Her son, Elvis, told the local station his mother is the type of person “who likes to make sure everybody likes her.”
Mella turned over the letter to police, who are checking it for DNA and fingerprints, WPVI reported.
“She waited so long to get her house, and this is how they welcomed her to the neighborhood,” her son told WPVI.
The Philadelphia Police Department told Yahoo Lifestyle that the incident is being investigated.
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