PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria Police have announced some details related to the city’s latest homicide, but a victim I.D. and precise motive for the shooting remain unknown.
Just before 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Peoria Police spokeswoman Semone Roth says officers were called to the 2800 block of West Montana Street in South Peoria for a reported burglary in progress.
When officers got to the scene, they found an adult woman inside with critical gunshot wounds.
First responders tried to save the woman there at the scene, but were forced to rush her off to the hospital, where PPD says she later died.
The shooting happened in a location not far from where an earlier shooting Friday afternoon left a male victim badly wounded.
Police had reported multiple ShotSpotter alerts with a total of 50 rounds fired in that rash of gunfire.
The male victim found on South Oregon Street sustained non-life threatening injuries.
Investigations and a search for suspects is ongoing in both cases now.
If you have any information regarding this latest incident, please contact Detective Roberto Vasquez at (309) 494-8369, the Peoria Police Department at (309) 673-4521, tip411 (anonymously), or Crime Stoppers (anonymously) at (309) 673-9000.
