Marion, Alabama family feud
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Alabama troopers, police from 8 departments help quell Marion feud.
Officers from eight police departments and Alabama state troopers set up a perimeter around the Marion City Hall around 11 a.m. today after a feud between two families spilled into a riot this morning
Reported riot in Marion, Ala., brought under control; 5 arrested
State Trooper John Reese said children of the 2 feuding families began arguing at the high school this morning and shotguns were found in their cars. The students were brought to City Hall and then their families showed up and the disturbance began. “There were over 100 people and bystanders when the rest of the students’ families started another fight outside City Hall, and it ended up inside City hall,” Reese said. “The families got into it at the police station and took it from there,” Turner said.
Marion Mayor Tony Long said shortly before noon that calm had returned to his Perry County town after the “full-scale riot” that broke out earlier in the morning, and that outside law enforcement agencies would stay around to help maintain order for “as long as we got to keep ‘em.”
Long said up to 300 people, mostly members of two feuding families, were involved in the disturbance at Marion’s municipal complex, just off the county courthouse square. “It was a full scale riot is what it was,” Long said. “I got here about 10 minutes after 8 and it was 20 after 8 when everything broke loose. I don’t know exactly what it was stemming from. Everybody’s trying to point the finger at everybody. I’ve heard a lot of people blaming me for it. It’s just a matter that got out of control and it’s got to be handled, you know.” “I don’t know how long it’s going to stay calm,” Long said. Carlton Hogue, a sergeant with the Perry County Sheriff’s Department, said the Moore and Sawyer families have been feuding for two or three years.
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