PEORIA, Ill. – A Peoria County grand jury has indicted a man for First Degree Murder in connection to a fatal shooting in April.
The grand jury Tuesday indicted 18-year-old Korion Hopkins, who is charged in connection to the death of 18-year-old MikeQuese Taylor.
The shooting occurred the evening of April 30th in the area of Knoxville and Forrest Hill, where Taylor was found with a gunshot wound to the chest and later died at a local hospital.
Prosecutors allege he and 20-year-old Messiah Carpenter were traveling together in the suspected vehicle used in the shooting. Carpenter was charged with First Degree Murder in connection to the shooting in May.
Hopkins is also charged in connection to a shooting incident in Chillicothe on April 28th.
He is due back in court Wednesday morning for an arraignment.
The mother of a nine-month-old who died from Fentanyl intoxication was also indicted on Tuesday.
19-year-old Zenai Wolford was indicted with the Class Three Felony of Endangering Life or Health of Child.
Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says her son, Kaine Wolford, was taken to a local hospital in the early morning hours of July 26th, and pronounced dead just before 1:30 A.M.
Police say a plastic bag reportedly with ecstasy was found in the baby’s crib and had been chewed on.
Wolford says she admitted to buying the drugs and storing them in her bra, and reportedly claims the bag fell into the crib when she bent over to put her son to bed.
Harwood says the manner of death has been ruled a homicide.
She is due back in court on August 29th for an arraignment hearing.
Two people arrested for different reasons after a shooting at Big Al’s in downtown Peoria last month were indicted on Tuesday.
The shooting occurred at around 3:30 A.M. on July 21st, where 42-year-old Jerry Watson is accused of firing two shots after a fight broke out.
Watson was indicted for the Class X Felony of Armed Habitual Criminal, while 45-year-old Renee Cipolla was indicted on the Class Four Felony of Obstructing Justice.
She reportedly was the manager at Big Al’s at the time of the shooting. Cipolla is accused of deleting surveillance video footage of the shooting, while telling detectives the video was deleted due the system’s memory being full.
Watson is due in court next on August 29th, with Cipolla on September 12th.
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