Beer Pong Game Abruptly Ends with Gunfire and Bloodshed

A Blue Island man enjoying a game of beer pong with friends made a tactical blunder with his 9mm handgun that wounded his opponent and a guy just minding his own business during a Fourth of July party Saturday on the South Side.

• Beer pong (noun): a drinking game in which players attempt to throw or hit table tennis balls into cups of beer, and their opponents are required to drink the contents of any cup in which a ball lands.

The sport does not generally require the use of a handgun. Now 27-year-old Manus Shannon faces a felony reckless discharge of a firearm charge.

DNAinfo reports:

Shannon began waving the gun in his opponent’s face to distract the 24-year-old South Chicago man during his turn, Assistant State’s Attorney Erin Antonietti said during a bond hearing Monday.

The opponent pushed Shannon away, and as he did, the gun went off — striking the opponent in his finger and a 20-year-old Roseland man in his shoulder, prosecutors said. According to Antonietti, the 20-year-old was sitting nearby texting at the time and not involved with the game.

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