The police notice this stuff right?On January 26, 2010, in a news report about a murder investigation, it was reported that Mecca Baptiste and the car lived at 919 W. John H. Gwynn Jr. Ave; and Jimmy Burnside, who was 24 on January 26, 2010, did not have an address. Now here we are on February 2, 2010, in a news report about a woman being run over by a drunken driver and Jimmy Burnside is 29 and he, Mecca S. Baptiste and the car live at 1107 E. Nebraska Avenue together?
Can't help but to wonder what's next for
Mecca, Jimmy and the car.
No murder charges in homicide
Prosecutors dismissed a first-degree murder charge against a South Peoria man accused in the city's last homicide of 2009.
Kendall G. Brown, 19, initially had been charged with murder in Diondre Nunn's Dec. 29 death. But that charge wasn't presented Tuesday to a Peoria County grand jury, which indicted Brown on charges of armed robbery, aggravated discharge of a firearm and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
Three others also face charges of obstructing justice for allegedly giving police false information in the case. They are Mecca S. Baptiste, 25, of 919 W. John H. Gwynn Jr. Ave.; Jimmy Burnside, 24, of Peoria; and Zachary Humbles, 28, of 315 N. Saratoga St.
Baptiste allegedly lied to police about driving her car that night to a nearby gas station, where a video surveillance camera in the parking lot showed the car and, allegedly, Brown inside. The other two allegedly lied to police about Baptiste's involvement in the case.
Woman hit by alleged drunken driver on birthday
Lakisha Mann-Buford, 30, of 504 W. Archer Ave. was treated and released at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. The man accused of driving into her, Jimmy D. Burnside, 29, of 1107 E. Nebraska Ave. also was treated and released at St. Francis.
A Peoria police officer responding to another call happened upon the scene about 3:50 a.m. Saturday at the intersection of South Street and Southwest Washington Street, according to an accident report. A car was stopped in the intersection. The car had struck a pedestrian, along with a parked car, fire hydrant and light pole before stopping.
Burnside said he had not been driving the car. But the car's owner, Mecca S. Baptiste, 25, also of 1107 E. Nebraska, said Burnside was in an altercation and was speeding away from the area when he crashed.