PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria Police are announcing details in their latest homicide case, reportedly tracing back to a multiple shots fired call from just before sun-up this morning.
In a news release issued Saturday, Peoria Police Public Information Officer Semone Roth says a Shotspotter alert went out at 6:24 a.m. for 12 rounds fired in an area of West Adrian G Hinton Avenue just off West MLK Drive.
Upon arrival, Roth says officers found a male victim with an apparent gunshot wound.
Officers immediately started life saving measures, later backed up by AMT and PFD paramdics and then rushed the victim off to a local hospital, but doctors and nurses apprently could not save them.
The victim was pronounced deceased at the hospital.
Information regarding the victim, as well as the manner and cause of death, will be released by the Peoria County Coroner.
Peoria Police are currently investigating this case.
If you have any information regarding this incident, please contact Detective Miller at (309) 494-8397, tip411 (anonymously), or Crime Stoppers (anonymously).
