BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — Community members are upset after a historic Cocoa cemetery is vandalized.

One woman whose family is buried there wants those responsible held accountable.

The Hilltop Cemetery is a sacred place for Helen Williams.

Her grandmother, mother, 3 aunts, an uncle and a cousin are all laid to rest in this historic black cemetery dating back hundreds of years.

“I’m up here every holiday, because I bring my mother and grandmother flowers, and when I came on the 10th as soon as I turned in, the red hit me, and I’m like what?” Williams said.

The entire grave next to her family was vandalized with red spray-painted graffiti.

After speaking to her kids about what she found, Williams called the police, who came out and wrote up a report.

But it turns out that wasn’t the only damage done.

On the edge of the wood line, several fence pillars are also defaced, and a concrete barrier also has been graffitied.

“Why would someone do this?, that’s a good question, why play with the dead? They can’t defend themselves, they don’t bother anybody,” she said.

Williams says there’s been no trouble in the cemetery for a few years.

Police took action and removed homeless camps from the property in the past. But now she’s worried problems are beginning again.

And she’s very concerned her family’s graves could be targeted next.

“So instead of coming on holidays, I’ll be coming a lot more,” Williams said.

Anyone with any information about who may have vandalized the Hilltop Cemetery can call Cocoa Police at 321-629-7620.