PEORIA, Ill. – A jury is now deciding the fate of a Peoria man, charged with committing the city’s first two homicides of 2022, but has been on trial for the first of them.
Deliberations started Wednesday in the first of two trials for Robert White, 28, charged with First-Degree Murder and Aggravated Battery for the death of Daniela Jackson, 33.
Prosecutors claim White made sexually-suggestive comments while at a New Year’s Party, and an argument ensued, following by four gunshots — one of which killed Jackson.
White allegedly later shot and killed 35-year-old Bridget Ross, but that wasn’t brought up at this trial, as that’s being tried separately.
No word on when there could be a verdict, or when the second trial will be held.
