We. Are. Peoria (Area)

Peoria’s latest homicide is especially gut wrenching. A 1-month-old baby boy was left to die in a hot vehicle, while the mother was high on cocaine: UPDATE (3:30 p.m.) — When police arrived on North Peoria Avenue and saw a dead baby lying on a grassy lawn, they noticed the mother was acting “erratic...

Murder-suicide today. Do we count this as one homicide, or two? 16th/17th of the year in Peoria. Homicide/Suicide PPD Incident #24-19850 (PEORIA, IL) Sunday, September 15, 2024, at approximately 2:16 p.m. Peoria Police were dispatched to the 2200 block of N. Flora on a welfare check. When officers a...

Make it 3 this week. Peoria’s 15 homicide of the year: PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — A second man is dead after a shooting in Peoria on Wednesday. According to the Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood, 31-year-old Jamarcus F. Walker, of Port Gibson, Mississippi, was pronounced brain dead at 4:09 p.m. on Frid...

2 days later, Peoria’s 14th homicide of the year: PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — A 20-year-old woman is dead after a shooting that occurred near Griswold and Latrobe Streets on Friday. According to Peoria police spokeswoman Semone Roth, officers responded to the area after receiving a report of a person bein...

Peoria’s 13th homicide of the year: UPDATED (9:30 p.m.) — One person is dead and another was seriously injured in a shooting that occurred just before 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. Semone Roth of the Peoria Police Department said officers went to the intersection of South MacArthur and West Johnson Street on...

Peoria’s 12th homicide of the year: Homicide Arrest (**UPDATE BELOW**) PPD Incident #24-18510 Previously Reported: (PEORIA, IL) Friday, August 30, 2024, at approximately 2:32 a.m. Peoria Police were dispatched to the 500 block of Main Street on a report of a person shot. When officers arrived, they ...

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Somehow I get the impression that Mayor Ali was expected to stop a a baby from injesting those pills, or expected to know about the El Vista domestic situation and should have stopped that homicide and shooting of the neighbor? Nope. It’s the culture that needs changing, but Mayor Ali doesn’t want ...

Peoria’s 11th homicide of 2024.
Victim was just 9 months old.
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Peoria’s 10th homicide of 2024:
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