A fatal shooting on Wednesday, September 4, 2024, in South Peoria left 30-year-old Dennis Harris of Peoria dead. Officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert for six rounds fired in the 600 block of West Johnson, near MacArthur and Martin Luther King Junior Park, around 8:30 P.M. Police found two men shot; Harris was pronounced dead at the scene just before 9:00 P.M., as confirmed by Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood.

A second victim, 31-year-old Jamarcus Walker of Port Gibson, Mississippi, was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries and was later pronounced brain dead at 4:09 P.M. on Friday, September 6, 2024. Autopsies were planned for Harris and for Walker after organ procurement. The shooting was the city’s 11th homicide of 2024; no suspects or arrests have been reported and the investigation is ongoing.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Peoria police at (309) 673-4521, tip411, or Crime Stoppers at (309) 673-9000. Did anyone in the community see activity in the MacArthur and West Johnson area that night?