They Shot My Truck Up With My 1 Year Old Baby Inside

The big story out of Marion, Alabama is the family feud riot that erupted earlier this week.

Sounds like a real Hatfield and McCoy type shindig, and the authorities are still trying to sort out the perps from the victims. Could be gang related, or just a bunch of rednecks fussin' and a feudin'.

"YEARS of quarreling between two families erupted into a small-town riot in which 150 screaming people hurled rocks and tools at each other and struck the police chief with a crowbar.

Families and their supporters lined opposite sides of street
'THEY shot my truck up with my 1-year-old baby inside,' said Littenger Moore, 30.

Problems continued at a high school the next morning, and a fight there resulted in two arrests. After the fight at the school, relatives of those arrested followed officers to police headquarters, where a crowd gathered.

Five men named either Moore or Sawyer and several minors were arrested on assault charges after Monday's violence, District Attorney Michael Jackson said.

In all, at least eight people were arrested. Authorities said a 2- or 3-year-old dispute between the two families prompted a melee that eventually swelled out of control to include friends and gang members.

'I saw a lady with a baseball bat,' said law office employee Debi Foster, who witnessed the scene from behind closed doors.

'There's still a broken mop in the driveway.' Officials said the disagreement between the families apparently originated with school children, but they didn't know the details.

'They came with guns, sticks, bricks, golf clubs. It was a bad situation,' said police chief Tony Bufford.

Mr Jackson said some of the people who took part in the melee sported tattoos with tear drops, which tend to indicate membership in a gang.

'Part of it actually could have been some gang activity,' Mr Jackson said. 'Part of it was families that didn't get along with each other. It's big families with a lot of friends.'

State police and officers from other west Alabama towns were called to keep the peace in Marion, a city of 3,300 about 85 miles (137 kilometres) west of Montgomery. Bufford was hit in the head with a crowbar but was fine.

The violence began on Sunday night when a fight fueled by the families' bad blood erupted after a basketball game, and at least one shot was fired."

I don't know anyone named Moore or Sawyer who sport tattooed tears, I thought that was more of a Mendoza or Menendez type of thing . . . but then the D.A. is named Michael Jackson, and the guy with the truck and the baby bears the first name "Littenger." Yep, Littenger. I don't know what is in the water in Marion, Alabama, but the EPA might want to check it out.

Even Jed Clampett knew to talk before shootin'.