Two people were critically injured in a shooting late Sunday in the Averyville neighborhood of Peoria, authorities said.
It happened around 11 p.m. on the Fourth of July near the 600 block of Haungs Avenue.
Four people were shot and went to the hospital in a private vehicle. A juvenile male suffered multiple life-threatening gunshot wounds and is in critical condition, Peoria Police said. An adult male also suffered a life-threatening gunshot wound and is in critical condition.
Two others—a juvenile female and another adult male—suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
The shootings are under investigation. Anyone with information about this incident please contact Detective Jacob Beck with the Peoria Police Department Criminal Investigations Division at (309) 494-8480, or Crime Stoppers at (309) 673-9000.
