Peoria Police Investigating Saturday Shooting

Press release from the Peoria County Government:

On Saturday, February 27, 2021, at approximately 5:12 p.m., Peoria Police responded to a ShotSpotter alert indicating three rounds fired in the 1800 block of N Peoria Ave. A caller further advised hearing several shots fired in the area.

Upon arrival, officers located an adult male victim with an apparent gunshot wound inside of a vehicle located in the 300 block of E Ravine Ave. First responding officers immediately removed the victim from the vehicle and began life-saving measures. The Peoria Fire Department arrived and provided advanced life-saving care. The male was transported to OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria with life-threatening injuries.

Despite aggressive resuscitative efforts and continued critical care treatment, 31-year-old Bobby King, of N Central Ave. in Peoria, was pronounced brain dead at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, February 28.

Autopsy on King is pending and will follow the procurement of organs for donation.

This release will be updated with autopsy findings following organ donation.

According to the American Academy of of Neurologists (AAN), brain death results from irreversible loss of function of the entire brain. The Uniform Determination of Death Act of 1981 held that brain death and circulatory (heart) death are equivalent, and the AAN acknowledges this equivalence. This is to inform that there is either brain death or heart death; not one and the other. The outcome would be one or the other with an equivalent result.

This press release was produced by the Peoria County Government. The views expressed here are the author’s own.