PEORIA, Ill. — One shooting suspect is dead and another is at-large after a Friday night shootout with Peoria Police.
Officers responded just before 10:00 to multiple calls of multiple shots fired in the 2000 block of N. Lehman. Some of those calls reported up to 40 rounds of gunfire.
Authorities said when they got to the scene, a vehicle fled at a high rate of speed and ended up crashing into a fence in the area of Ardell and Flint.
Two males left the vehicle and officers began a foot chase.
During the chase, one of the males opened fire on the responding officers, and the officers fired back.
Later in the chase, the officers found the male who opened fire in the 1900 block of N. Kansas, with a gun near him.
That male, 25-year-old Trashaun Shields, was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead at 12:23 A.M.
Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said Shields suffered two gunshot wounds. One was in the lower kidney area, while the other was in the head.
Harwood said a self-inflicted wound could not be ruled out as it pertained to the gunshot to the head.
A forensic scientist from the Illinois State Police Crime Lab will examine evidence recovered and make a determination as to whether or not it was, in fact, self-inflicted.
The other suspect remained at-large.
At 10:04, officers found another male in the 1700 block of N. Great Oak Rd. with a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Two other victims were also taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
One of the three victims was a juvenile.
That area was searched, and multiple casings and guns were recovered, and PPD Public Information Officer Amy Dotson said that could indicate multiple shooters were involved.
Dotson said besides the PPD, the Peoria County Sheriff’s Office and Illinois State Police also responded to the scene.
The ISP will handle an investigation of the incident while officers involved in the event will be placed on critical incident leave.
