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A 16-year-old Peoria boy injured in a shooting this weekend is expected to make a full recovery.
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Police say separate fatal shooting and stabbing incidents hours apart at the same Peoria apartment complex this weekend are not related.
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A program at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria provides free trauma recovery services to victims of violent crimes and sees more clients every year.
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The Peoria County Sheriff's Office says one person is injured after a shooting Sunday.
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Peoria saw its first homicide of 2024 just four days into the new year.
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Former Peoria Community Against Violence CEO Becky Rossman doesn’t want to see families of gun violence victims left without a place to turn. The non-profit victims’ services organization ceased operations on Nov. 30, after it was unable to close a $300,000 funding gap.
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Peoria police say a juvenile male has died after a shooting Friday night in the 1600 block of North Great Oak Road. The shooting death marks Peoria’s 20th homicide of 2023, and the second in four days.
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Mayor Rita Ali says she believes the late-summer spike in violence is part of a phenomenon happening across the country, and that Peoria is a safe city. In this month's regular conversation with WCBU, Ali talks about responding to the recent surge of violent crime, and why Peoria is seeing a wave of incidents in late summer.
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Peoria Police Chief Eric Echevarria tells WCBU that a person was found dead on Helen Street Thursday morning. The coroner was on the scene.
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Peoria police say three men were wounded in two separate shooting incidents Saturday, with one victim hospitalized in critical condition.