Peoria County State's Attorney's Office

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

The alleged driver of a vehicle that fled a traffic stop in Peoria’s East Bluff neighborhood and was later involved in a collision with another vehicle that claimed the life of a teen passenger is now in custody at the Peoria County Jail.

Peoria County State's Attorney Jodi Hoos said 41-year-old David L. King was strangled to death prior to being severely mutilated.

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.

Deziaah Z. Hunter testified the shooting was an accident and she did not recall pulling the trigger in the incident last summer. Prosecutors introduced evidence which contradicted her story.

Community leaders participating in a conversation about ways to assist victims of criminal violence highlighted the need for support services, advocacy programs, and an examination of the root causes of crime.

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 Peoria man convicted of killing his girlfriend at a Peoria apartment complex last year was sentenced Friday to a total of 99 years in prison.