first-degree murder

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 County jury convicted a man of first-degree murder Tuesday in a 2021 fatal shooting on the city’s South Side.

Prosecutors have filed murder charges against two more people in connection with the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy last week at a West Bluff residence.

A 23-year-old Peoria man will spend decades in prison for a 2023 murder connected to a dice game in the North Valley.

The Peoria County State’s Attorney’s Office has filed charges against two men allegedly involved in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy Wednesday in the West Bluff neighborhood.

A Peoria man convicted of shooting his girlfriend and leaving her in a roadside ditch near Brimfield in 2021 has been sentenced to a total of 65 years in prison.

A Peoria County jury returned guilty verdicts in the trial of a 17-year-old for his involvement in a June shooting on Peoria’s South Side that left another man dead.

Tazewell County prosecutors have filed first-degree murder charges against a 93-year-old Pekin man accused of killing his wife. James Pate remains in custody in the Tazewell County Jail following his arrest Tuesday afternoon for allegedly causing the death of Cheryl Pate, 80.

Pekin police arrested a 93-year-old man on a charge of first-degree murder Tuesday in connection with the stabbing death of a female victim.

A Peoria woman has been sentenced to more than three decades in prison after pleading guilty to the 2023 murder of her boyfriend.