Peoria County Court

A 26-year-old Peoria man has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for an Independence Day 2022 shooting that killed one person and injured another at the former Taft Homes residential complex.

A 20-year-old Peoria woman has been sentenced to 53 years in prison for the 2025 shooting death of a woman who was sitting in a vehicle along the city’s riverfront.

A Peoria man charged in the deaths of two men during a string of criminal violence early Saturday will remain in custody until his trial begins.

A Peoria man originally found guilty of murder has been sentenced instead to 10 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter.

Peoria Heights Mayor Matt Wigginton has been found not guilty of misdemeanor charges of driving under the influence.

Lamentae Turner of Decatur has been sentenced to life in prison for a 2023 fatal shooting at the Casey’s gas station on Farmington Road in West Peoria.

An 18-year-old man found guilty in a fatal shooting on Peoria’s South Side last June has been sentenced to a total of 90 years in prison.

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.

Peoria County State's Attorney Jodi Hoos talks with WCBU about progress reflected in her office's first annual report, covering topics including juvenile justice and violent crime.