Peoria County State's Attorney's Office

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.

Peoria County State’s Attorney Jodi Hoos has determined the fatal shooting of a St. Louis man by a Peoria police officer outside a downtown hotel in May was justified.

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.