PEORIA, Ill. – The Peoria County Coroner has identified the 44-year-old man who died from a gunshot wound early Thursday morning.
Jamie Harwood says Lawrence Jones of Peoria was taken to OSF Healthcare Saint Francis Medical Center unresponsive, not breathing, and with a pulse.
Jones was found with an apparent gunshot wound inside a vehicle that had crashed in the front yard of a house in the area of Forrest Hill and Golf at around 1:45 A.M.
Harwood says Jones was pronounced dead in the emergency room just before 2:30 A.M.
He says an autopsy revealed Jones suffered a gunshot wound to the back and suffered severe and rapid loss of blood, adding that Jones likely died instantly.
The shooting is the reported 7th homicide in Peoria this year.
The case remains under investigation.
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