The Peoria Police Department is now investigating the city's 8th homicide of 2022 after after a man was found unresponsive in an alley early Monday morning.
Officers were flagged down shortly before 3 a.m. after a citizen found the man in an alleyway in the 1000 block of E. Behrends.
Peoria County Coroner said 31-year-old Michael A. Jones, Jr. of West Peoria was shot once in the upper body. He was pronounced dead on the scene. The police department's criminal investigation division is leading on the case.
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