Rick James Ranson, 30, died after being shot on Memorial Day and was pronounced dead at OSF St. Francis Medical Center on May 29, 2023. Officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert in the 2000 block of North Gale Avenue and found Ranson with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body; a woman was also wounded but survived with non-life-threatening injuries. The shooting was recorded as Peoria’s eighth homicide of 2023.

Ranson was a Peoria native, born September 10, 1992, who performed as Youngg World Gutta Gang KGB and ran a lawn business called Youngg World. He is survived by his father William Bill Ransom Jr., his girlfriend Olexis Evans, four children and several siblings; he was preceded in death by his mother Joyce Hope, a brother William Ransom III, and his maternal grandmother Dorothy Hope. A memorial service will be held at a later date with arrangements by Simons Mortuary.

Did anyone in the Peoria area see or hear anything in the 2000 block of North Gale Avenue around the time of the ShotSpotter alert that night?