A history of problems at the shopping center
The homicide late on Mother s Day was just the latest to draw police attention to the plaza.
According to dispatch records provided to the Journal Star under a Freedom of Information Act request, police have been called to the address 131 times in the past five years due to fights or aggravated battery. In the same time period there were 13 calls for shots being fired there, 10 more where there was evidence of a shooting, and six calls related to unlawful weapons. Additionally, from 2016 to 2021, there have been 272 disorderly conduct calls and seven calls for someone being robbed at the shopping center, the records show.
Peoria Police investigating overnight homicide
PEORIA, Ill. (HOI) Peoria Police are investigating the city s eighth homicide of the year.
Peoria Police Spokeswoman Amy Dotson says two shotspotter alerts of multiple rounds fired came in at the MacArthur Shell in the 200 block of North MacArthur Highway around 11:30 PM.
Dotson adds preliminary information indicates there was an altercation at the gas pumps, and shots were fired.
Officers were later told a gunshot victim, an adult male, arrived by private vehicle at a local hospital.
He was later pronounced dead. His identity and cause of death will be released by the Coroner following an autopsy.