PEORIA, Ill. – Charged filed by a Peoria County grand jury this week include ones filed in connection to two fatal car crashes from 2021.
It’s not known when a Peoria man who is in state prison will be brought back to Peoria to face charges accusing him of causing an accident last year that claimed the life of a Peoria woman.
A Peoria County grand jury this week charged Christopher Clayton, 31, with two counts of Aggravated Driving Under the Influence, one count of Aggravated Fleeing and Eluding, and one count of Unlawful Restraint.
The accident happened in mid-August of 2021, when the car Clayton and Ashley Gase, 22, were in collided with a truck near Washington and Edmund Streets.
Gase was pronounced dead at the scene. Clayton allegedly had both methamphetamine and cocaine in his system.
Clayton was arrested by Police in May on charges including Domestic Battery. He was sent back to prison last month to serve two years left on drug conviction sentences in both Peoria and Tazewell Counties.
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A Peoria man charged with the death of a woman in a street racing-related crash last year, now faces new charges after a second woman recently died.
A Peoria County grand jury is charging Darien Davis, 32, with additional counts of Aggravated Driving Under the Influence.
He already faced counts of Aggravated Street Racing and Reckless Homicide when Jacqueline McDuffie, 50, died a month after the crash in September, 2021 near Sterling and Gale Avenues.
The new charges come as Debbie Smith, 64, died September 20, 2022.
Davis, prior to the new charges being filed, had been scheduled to face trial October 17th. A hearing will be held next Thursday.
