Local teens’ innocent game halted before potentially serious repercussions

  • ABOVE- Gel pellet shooters can be brightly colored, obvious toys, as pictured left. They can also resemble actual firearms, like the gel pellet gun pictured right. Both photos are stock images; not the apparatus used in this story.
    ABOVE- Gel pellet shooters can be brightly colored, obvious toys, as pictured left. They can also resemble actual firearms, like the gel pellet gun pictured right. Both photos are stock images; not the apparatus used in this story.

    An intended game, or “TikTok challenge” ended with three Menard High School students being questioned by the Menard County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO).

    On July 27, 2022 the MCSO received a report of someone in a vehicle pointing a gun at a child on the campus of Menard High School near the weight room/fieldhouse. Another report received involved two vehicles driving recklessly around area convenience s…