UPDATED 4:14 P.M.
PEORIA, Ill. – The victim in the city’s eighth homicide of the year has been identified.
Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says an autopsy on Rick Ransom, 30, indicates he suffered a number of gunshot wounds on the upper half of his body and likely died instantly.
A ShotSpotter alert of five rounds being fired was reported around 8:45 Monday night near Gale and Underhill in the West Bluff.
Ransom was one of two people shot at; the other victim had non-life-threatening injuries.
Police have not yet released any information on suspects, and want you to contact them if you saw anything.
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PEORIA, Ill. — Two people were shot Monday night in Peoria, and one of them is dead.
Peoria Police Spokesperson Semone Roth says the shooting happened around 8:45 p.m.
Officers were called to the area of N. Gale and W. Groveland Avenues on a ShotSpotter alert indicating five rounds were fired.
PPD found a woman who was shot with non-life-threatening injuries. A man, who was also shot, had critical injuries and was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Police have no suspects at this time.
This appears to be Peoria’s 8th homicide of the year.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Peoria Police Department at (309) 673-4521, tip411 (anonymously), or Crime Stoppers (anonymously) at (309) 673-9000.
