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A Shreveport man faces hate-crime charges after a series of racist notes were left on the campus of a west-side church.
David Tefertiller, 67, was arrested Tuesday afternoon on a warrant charging him with terrorizing and committing a hate crime. Shreveport police said Tefertiller was standing outside his residence on Greenwood Road when they arrived and he was arrested without incident.
Authorities said five handwritten notes, described as being alternately racist and threatening, were thrown outside Greenwood Acres Full Gospel Baptist Church on Greenwood Road this year. One threatened to kill Blacks and others made profane comments about Blacks, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Black Lives Matter. The frequency of the notes increased in the past month, authorities said.
Church pastor Bishop Fred A. Caldwell Sr. said he did not want to comment on what happened because he did not want to encourage copycats.
Tefertiller came under investigation after a church employee saw a note being left and got a license plate number, police said.
Tefertiller was released from the Caddo Correctional Center Wednesday afternoon after posting a $100,000 bond.