A Peoria County jury returned guilty verdicts Wednesday in the trial of 17-year-old Lamar Cagle for his involvement in a June shooting on Peoria’s South Side that left another man dead.
Cagle was one of three people charged in connection with the death of 20-year-old Teron Scott Jr. Following a three-day trial, Cagle was convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm.
According to a media release from Peoria County State’s Attorney Jodi Hoos’ office, evidence at trial included surveillance video of the crime in the early morning hours of June 20. A vehicle with the suspects inside crossed into oncoming lanes in the 300 block of South MacArthur Highway and pulled alongside Scott’s vehicle before gunfire erupted.
Officers arriving on the scene found Scott in the rear driver’s side seat of a car that crashed into a tree in Martin Luther King Jr. Park. He suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene. A second shooting victim went to a local hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
Additional evidence at trial indicated the vehicle with Cagle and fellow suspects Christopher Adams and Kamereon Bell was equipped with a dashboard camera that recorded the crime, and Cagle can be heard in the video discussing being one of the shooters.
Cagle’s sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 19. The cases against Adams and Bell are pending.
