INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A girl and a boy have been criminally charged with vandalizing a church that the county prosecutor has called “a historic pillar” in the city’s Haughville neighborhood.

The 17-year-old boy and 16-year-old girl were charged with institutional criminal mischief in the a juvenile court, the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release issued Friday afternoon. The release did not name the girl or boy.

Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said in a statement, “When an institution is targeted, it’s not just an attack on a building or a bus — it affects the entire community. I am proud that our neighbors took action and played a pivotal role in quickly identifying the accused.”

Satanic phrases and death threats were scribbled on a brick wall of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, and on its bus Tuesday afternoon.

Billie Ball, a Haughville resident for more than 40 years, said Friday, “I’m glad there’s a quick response. The arrest and everything that was done. Hopefully it would teach them a lesson … hopefully.”

Ball says it’s not the first time the neighborhood has been littered with vandalism, and she wants it to stop. “This is not what our neighborhood is about and what our neighborhood looks like.”

A street sign in the neighborhood reads “Good Neighbors, Make Great Neighborhoods,” but, in the past few months, Haughville has seen its share of vandalism. Local leaders say as many as 40 places were defaced: businesses, other churches and homes.

A longtime member of the church who’s lives in the neighborhood for more than three decades, Gertrude Young said, “It’s a shame someone did what they did.”

Welcome signs decorate Young’s front lawn to make the neighborhood beautiful. She’s disgusted by what she’s seen. “In the community, as I drive over, it’s all over garages, houses, fences. It’s a shame and it needs to be stopped.”

Ronald Covington, a pastor, organized a vigil Friday evening to bring the community together with church leaders and Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. More than 150 people attended.