The D.C. Central Kitchen had several of its vans vandalized last night, and, understandably, many people were flabbergasted. Why would anyone want to vandalize vehicles belonging to a group whose wide-ranging missions include job training, feeding the less fortunate and supporting better nutrition among children?

The craziest part: the vandalism, which included broken windows and red spray paint along the sides of the vans, doesn’t appear, at least initially, to have been random. TBD’s Sommer Mathis reports that the damage to the vans appeared to be actually sending a message:

The most striking thing about the vandalism is how specific it appears to be. Surveying the damage as a whole, it really seems as though whomever is responsible was trying to send DCCK a message. The organization’s logos are crossed out and obscured by red spray paint on nearly all of the vehicles.

“You can see here, they went up, down, and across, in an ‘X,'” says Malsbary, gesturing to one of the vandalized vans. “This has caught everybody off guard.”

Police are taking their time examining the vans, and so several of the Kitchen’s normal deliveries have been delayed today. Additionally, repairs to the vans are expected to make a pretty large dent into the Central Kitchen’s budget. Currently, the Kitchen is directing people who would like to donate to help defray the cost of the repairs to this website.