Deandre M. Blocker, Sr., 50, was shot and killed in Peoria’s East Bluff neighborhood on Saturday night, November 25, 2023. Peoria police responded to two ShotSpotter alerts around 9:45 p.m. indicating four rounds had been fired and found Blocker inside a residence on the 600 block of E. Frye with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene and the autopsy indicated he likely died moments after the shooting.

Born September 8, 1973, in Peoria to Genell (Johnson) Jordan and Leonard Blocker, he was known to family and friends as Dre.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Peoria Police Department or to report anonymously through Tip411 or Crime Stoppers. Did anyone in the East Bluff area see or hear anything that night?