PEORIA, Ill. – A Peoria man is going to prison for the city’s 22nd homicide last year, but not on the original charges he faced.
Peoria County Court records indicate Orlando Alexander, 43, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of Second Degree Murder.
In exchange, two First Degree Murder charges were dropped, and Alexander was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Alexander turned himself in back last September, days after Isaac Payton, 35, was found shot near Wayne and Adams, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Alexander gets credit for most of the rest of the last year being held in jail, and will be on parole for a year when he’s released.
