KILLED while sleeping: 8 year old shot in the head in drive by shooting, as young'uns with guns continue to do what they like in the streets of Peoria

I can still recall Police Spokesman, Doug Burgess saying confidently on the news if you are not doing anything wrong, or hanging with the wrong people, you don't have anything to worry about.

8-year old fatally shot

An 8-year old boy is shot and killed as shots are fired at a Peoria house. Police say it happened just after 4:30 Thursday morning in the 1000 of East Behrends. Peoria police spokesman, Officer Doug Burgess, says the child was alseep in bed when the shots were fired during a drive-by shooting.

Burgess says officers are investigating whether this incident is linked to a couple of other incidents of shots fired in the 600 block of East Wilcox and the 1300 block of North North. No one was shot in those incidents.

There were several more reports of shots fired overnight starting at around 12:45 Thursday morning. Those were in the 1300 block of West Wilcox, 1400 block of West Gift and the 1800 block of North Missouri. Source

If only the Drudge Report would pick up on the news reports on all of the black on black crime playing out in Peoria

I remember hearing Doug Burgess say on the news the other day that crime always picks up in the summer and if you are not doing anything wrong, or hanging with the wrong people, you don't have anything to worry about.

July 11th, four people were shot, including two brothers who were wounded in separate shootings;
July 13th Peorian confronts armed intruder with golf club;
July 13th Mistaken identity nets robbers no money;
July 14th a man who was shot multiple times was later pronounced dead. Another man who was reportedly shot in the same incident suffered a wound to the head;
July 16th Peoria man, 32, stabbed in the lower abdomen;
July 16th No suspects in South Peoria gunshots;
July 17th Two Peoria residences robbed at gunpoint over past four days; Bullet hole found in Peoria house; Man robbed at gunpoint in Peoria; Gunfire follows crash Sunday night.

And now this:

CityLink passenger struck by stray bullet
One person was injured Monday afternoon after a bullet or pellet struck a CityLink bus.

The bus was headed west on Howett Street about 1:30 p.m. when a bullet or pellet from a pellet gun struck the bus, shattering a window and injuring a passenger. The victim suffered facial wounds, police said.