Re-enter only to make a quick exit...

Sad.

Thursday, May 17, 2012, Kensey Ross is a part of the Peoria Park District’s ELITE Program and is fortunate enough to have the opportunity to interview for jobs. Kensey, is one of seven young men who are a part of ELITE’s Re-entry Program, a program that offers young men with felony convictions assistance with their job search.

Thursday, September 5, 2012, 11:30 p.m. PPD find Kensey in a parking lot behind his home in the River West housing development with a gunshot wound to the head. Kensey Ross, 23, was pronounced dead at 12:03 a.m. at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. 

RIP.

People are shooting on the regular on the East Bluff and South end and never get caught

But let somebody get shot out North and all kinds of suspects get arrested. But then again, we already know where this City's priorities lay and it ain't with the inner city neighborhoods. Did we find at least one of the 4-5 guys who committed the strong armed robbery in broad daylight down at Church's Chicken yesterday?

Three more held in Thursday shooting 
One suspect arrested at hospital after being shot

A man who was shot in the forearm Thursday night is one of three additional people to be arrested in connection with another shooting that took place less than an hour earlier in Northwest Peoria, according to Peoria police.

Andre M. Ewing, 28, of 2306 W. Wiswall St. was arrested Saturday afternoon at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center. He was taken to St. Francis after sustaining a gunshot wound that brought police to an apartment at 2604 N. Lavalle Court before 7 p.m. Thursday.

Ewing is a suspect in the shooting that left an unidentified man in critical condition at St. Francis. The victim, who was shot in the head, was found outside the home of Juan F. Nesbit, 21, of 3616 Hedgehill Lane. Nesbit remains in Peoria County Jail pending a second appearance Tuesday in bonding court.

 Police also have arrested Aaron S. Frazier, 21, of 2009 W. Starr St. and Tonica E. Fullilove, 21, of 810 E. McClure Ave. in connection with the Hedgehill Lane shooting. Ewing, Frazier and Fullilove were booked on charges of attempted murder. Ewing faces additional charges of obstructing justice and false reporting of an offense. A bond of $500,000 was set Saturday for Nesbit on a charge of aggravated battery.  Source

SOS Peoria: Three (3) homicides in last nine (9) days

First in Print - Deadly December 2010

Today, citizens of Peoria are left to put together for themselves that with the homicide of December 21st, the City of Peoria has had four (4) homicides in little over one (1) month; and three (3) homicides within the last nine (9) days.

Victim of Tuesday beating is the city's 21st homicide - Dec 22, 2010
Peoria police are investigating the city’s 21st homicide of the year after the victim of a beating was pronounced brain dead Tuesday, December 21, 2010.

Todd Gunter, 29, of 1829 S. Stanley St. is being maintained on life support at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center pending preparation for organ donation. He was brought to the hospital after an incident at 12:21 p.m. Monday at Griswold Liquors, 1814 S. Griswold St. He was pronounced brain dead at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Police were flagged down outside the liquor store Monday after Gunter was found lying unresponsive on the ground. He may have been struck in the head with a piece of asphalt. An autopsy will be performed to determine an official cause of death following organ donation, according to Peoria County Coroner Johnna Ingersoll. Source

North Peoria Shooting Leaves One Man Dead - Wed, Dec 15, 2010
A lunch-hour shooting in North Peoria claims the life of a Peoria man. Police say he was shot in the head while driving through a neighborhood.

Peoria man dies after being shot in the chest - Sun, Dec 12, 2010
A Peoria man was fatally shot in the 1500 block of South Stanley Street about 6:30 p.m. Sunday.

AND there was a homicide in November...

Man shot, killed in gas station fight - Nov 11, 2010
A man released from prison almost a year ago allegedly shot and killed a Peoria man during a Tuesday night fight at a Circle K gas station.

AND... There are still two (2) babies in our city recovering from bullet wounds. On October 14th, an early morning shooting resulted in the injury of a 4-year-old as someone fired shots into a home; on Dec 11th, a 3-year-old child was shot in the head on North North Street.

A man was shot early Saturday

On the second night of the new crime initiative, Jose P. Lopez was standing on the front porch of a residence at 1539 S. Faraday Ave. just after midnight when he was shot twice - once in the arm and once in the stomach. Lopez was transported to OSF Saint Francis Medical Center with what police called non-life-threatening injuries. No arrests have been made. Source