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Police: Garden gnomes hurled, gunfire exchanged after parents escalate fight between kids
WAND TV ^
| 1/19/2021
| Staff
Posted on 02/07/2021 5:09:34 PM PST by simpson96
MATTOON, Ill. (WAND) - A fight that started between a group of juveniles in Mattoon turned into an all out brawl between their parents and led to shots being fired in Mattoon.
Police were called to the 1700 block of Edgar Ave. Monday around 6:15 p.m.
When they got there, they learned two groups of people had been fighting and shots had been fired.
While no one was shot, a house with an infant inside had been struck by a bullet.
Mattoon police said the fight started between a group of juveniles that led to a physical fight.
Adults from both parties got involved. Police said the fight was escalated by the adults to the point where they were throwing ceramic garden gnomes at one another.
Police said men from both sides pulled handguns and started firing "indiscriminately."
Amanda L. Hopgood, 42, of Mattoon, was arrested in connection with this incident in the 1400 block of Marshall Ave. at 11:00 p.m.
She was charged with Obstructing Justice. The charge alleges that she lied to police about the presence of a suspect wanted for questioning in regards to the shooting. That suspect was found within her home.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: banglist; gnomes; illinois
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posted on
02/07/2021 5:09:34 PM PST
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simpson96
To: simpson96
Don’t even need to look, do I?
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posted on
02/07/2021 5:10:17 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(You are in far greater danger from authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Let’s just hope the garden gnomes are OK. The rest of these teens?
Nobody cares.
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posted on
02/07/2021 5:11:30 PM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(Trump is a deposed Pres. in exile. America is truly a banana republic. Our govt. has been overthrown)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
02/07/2021 5:14:41 PM PST
by
EEGator
To: simpson96
When garden gnomes are outlawed...
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posted on
02/07/2021 5:14:48 PM PST
by
Eagles6
(Welcome to the Matrix/1984.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Gnome, gnome on the range...
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posted on
02/07/2021 5:15:04 PM PST
by
Kenny500c
( )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Never mind, wrong pic on image search...
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posted on
02/07/2021 5:15:26 PM PST
by
EEGator
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
02/07/2021 5:15:35 PM PST
by
rdl6989
( )
To: simpson96
Oh give me a gnome,
Where the bufalo roam
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posted on
02/07/2021 5:18:32 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I assume that is Amanda L. Hopgood, 42, who was arrested, though it doesn't say.
To: simpson96
Gnome hurling anything like dwarf tossing? Is that legal?
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posted on
02/07/2021 5:19:50 PM PST
by
Spok
(All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Is there a garden gnome ping list?
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posted on
02/07/2021 5:20:11 PM PST
by
xp38
To: simpson96
Don’t bring a garden gnome to a gunfight.
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posted on
02/07/2021 5:20:15 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(It's all fun and games until Mrs. Bipolar catches me posting on Free Republic without permission.)
To: simpson96
What color were the garden gnomes?
Certainly not black or BGLM would be rioting tonight...
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posted on
02/07/2021 5:20:23 PM PST
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is Joe McCarthy now that we desperately need him sober?)
To: simpson96
I still stand by the right to bare gnomes.
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posted on
02/07/2021 5:21:45 PM PST
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: simpson96
Wonder if this ever happens in Nome, Alaska?
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posted on
02/07/2021 5:22:27 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: simpson96
My back yard practically.....Mattoon is a relatively small rural Illinois town (17-18K) known for their High school sports prowess.
Surprising.
To: simpson96; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON
The suspects.
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posted on
02/07/2021 5:24:01 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: simpson96
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posted on
02/07/2021 5:25:01 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum; EEGator
Don’t even need to look, do I?
That is amazing, considering the town’s demographics, at least as of 2010 according to Wiki, only 2.3% Amish out of a population just under 20K
Per the 2010 United States Census, Mattoon had 18,555 people. Among non-Hispanics this includes 17,342 White (93.5%), 433 Black (2.3%), 124 Asian (0.7%), 32 Native American, 1 Pacific Islander, 10 from some other race, & 282 from two or more races. The Hispanic or Latino population included 331 people (1.8%).
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posted on
02/07/2021 5:26:41 PM PST
by
Hieronymus
(“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.”)
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