Daily Egyptian online is uploaded at noon. Local churches vandalized Brett Nauman Daily Egyptian For the second straight weekend, churches in Carbondale have been sprayed with gunfire. The Walnut Street and Lakeland Baptist Churches are the newest sites of damage after both were found with shattered glass doors resulting from gunshots Friday and Sunday. Now six churches have been damaged in a period of eight days and the Carbondale Police Department has no suspects. We have nothing to go on.
Most people just report hearing gunfire.
Churches in Makanda and Herrin have also had similar shootings, according to Finney. Police said the bullets were from a 9mm and broke the glass door on the church's west entrance. They sounded like they were at our doorstep. She said her boyfriend saw someone who looked suspicious and they reported the incident to the police the next morning. The Rev. John Horn said shotgun shells destroyed the glass door at the west door of his church.