2024 Peoria homicides

A Peoria man accused of murdering his girlfriend pleaded guilty Monday, and as part of a plea agreement, was sentenced to 45 years in prison.

A Peoria teen’s murder case will be heard in adult court.

A man is dead after being shot in an East Bluff residence Sunday night in Peoria.

The man suspected of killing a woman and shooting another man in the leg over the weekend hasdied after shooting himself in the head, Peoria police said Tuesday.

A 22-year-old man was found with an apparent gunshot wound and was pronounced dead on the scene.

Maurice Sargent, 33, made his plea in an arraignment hearing Thursday morning in Peoria County Circuit Court.

A 20-year-old Peoria woman, shot while trying to help a woman fatally wounded in an August shooting incident, has also died of her injuries.

A 26-year-old Chicago woman pleaded not guilty to murder Wednesday in the death of her infant son in Peoria.

Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said Tuesday that one-month-old Grayson Luncsford's final cause of death was drug-related.

A Peoria woman was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday after she was found at fault for her infant son's fatal overdose death in August.