We. Are. Peoria (Area)

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — One man is dead after a shooting in South Peoria on Monday night, the Peoria police department said on Tuesday. One injured after shooting near Peoria school According to police, just before 9 p.m., officers were sent to the 2400 block of West Howett Street after an alert from...

AV8R wrote: ↑Tue Mar 04, 2025 12:14 pm I don’t understand how that could happen? Isn’t that a gun free school zone?

Maybe the sticker fell off the door?

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — One man is dead after a shooting in South Peoria on Monday night, the Peoria police department said on Tuesday. One injured after shooting near Peoria school According to police, just before 9 p.m., officers were sent to the 2400 block of West Howett Street after an alert from ...

AV8R wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:51 pm Shoveling is for young men.

Which is why I pay someone else to do mine.

That’s what I thought, but local media aren’t reporting it as a homicide.

Instead, they’re reporting the “first” Peoria homicide of the year is a grisly shooting death that happened in an apartment building near Pioneer Parkway.

Either way, not a good start to the year.

Need a ruling from @AV8R. Is this considered a homicide? Fatal Hit & Run Arrest PPD Incident #25-739 (PEORIA, IL) On Monday, January 13, 2025, at approximately 1:01 a.m. Peoria Police were dispatched to the 2100 block of MLK Drive on a report of a hit-and-run involving a pedestrian. When officer...

One man is dead after a shooting Sunday night on Peoria’s East Bluff, police said. Officers were called to the 300 block of East Arcadia Avenue just before 7:50 p.m. for the shooting, said Semone Roth of the Peoria Police Department. She said they found a man with a gunshot wound inside a home. The ...

Less than a week later, the city’s 21st homicide of the year: PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — The Peoria Police Department has confirmed that a woman is dead after a shooting incident around 5:30 p.m. near Republic Street and Wisconsin Avenue in Peoria on Sunday. Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria called the...

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — A 22-year-old man was shot and killed early Monday morning in Far North Peoria, marking the city’s 20th homicide of the year . The man was killed shortly after midnight in the 8900 block of North Scrimshaw Drive. That’s a road off Wood Sage which is about a half-mile north of t...

Update: the boy was only 10, not 12. A 12-year-old boy is dead after a Sunday night shooting, said Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood. The coroner confirmed the boy’s death after he was pronounced dead at 8:01 p.m. in the OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center trauma room. According to Semone ...