***UPDATE 9/28***
Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood has identified the victim as 28-year-old Donald Allen of Peoria.
Harwood said Allen sustained a single gunshot wound to his head.
He was officially pronounced dead Sunday at 8:40 A.M.
The police department as of Monday afternoon had not identified any suspects.
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***UPDATE 9/27***
Victim has been pronounced dead.
The Peoria Police Department said it is investigating the incident as the City’s ninth homicide of 2020.
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PEORIA, Ill. — A Saturday night shooting victim was clinging to life Sunday morning following an incident on Peoria’s south side.
Peoria Police and Fire Department Paramedics answered a call around 11:15 on a ShotSpotter alert of four rounds fired in the 1500 block of S. Faraday.
Battalion Chief Stephen Rada said the adult male victim they found was unresponsive.
Life-saving efforts kept the man alive and he was taken to a hospital with injuries deemed to be life-threatening.
Peoria Police Public Information Officer Amy Dotson said there was no suspect information immediately available.
