Bobby King, a 31-year-old African American man from Peoria, Illinois, was shot after a verbal altercation on February 27, 2021. The confrontation with 28-year-old Odis Jackson escalated inside a parked car at East Ravine Avenue and North Peoria Avenue. King was found with a gunshot wound about 5:15 p.m. that Saturday.

Jackson fled and a standoff with police followed. The Peoria Special Response Team and the Central Illinois Emergency Response Team negotiated for nearly five hours before Jackson surrendered and was taken into custody at about 4:30 a.m. on Sunday. King was pronounced brain dead at 7:30 a.m. on February 28, 2021, at OSF St. Francis Medical Center. Jackson was charged with first-degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon and pled not guilty on March 11, 2021; a trial date was set for May 3, 2021. King was reported as Peoria’s fifth homicide victim of the year and friends and family mourned his death.

Are there people who knew Bobby King or witnessed the incident who can help fill in what happened that evening?