2024 Peoria homicides

Jakaiden Rynearson is one of the 16 latest North American recipients of the Carnegie Medal, awarded to people who “enter extreme danger while saving or attempting to save the lives of others.”

Stevie Linwood, 44, was convicted in February of first-degree murder in the deaths of Zaneta Winters and Jakaiden Rynearson, his girlfriend and a neighbor who tried to render aid.

A Peoria man has been sentenced to a total of 25 years in prison for a 2024 shooting outside a downtown business that left another man dead.

A third person has entered a guilty plea in connection with a foiled 2024 robbery in South Peoria that resulted in the fatal shooting of one of the robbers.

A 41-year-old Peoria man was found guilty of first-degree murder Thursday in the 2024 shooting in the East Bluff neighborhood.

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.