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PEORIA Chase Bennett and Annabelle Rodgers, who knew each other only briefly before linking up on a fateful night in November, each died of accidental overdoses of multiple drugs, Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said.
Bennett, 25, of Peoria Heights, and Rodgers, 18, of East Peoria, were found dead Nov. 17 in a Limestone Township residence owned by a Bennett acquaintance. Their struggles with addiction, as well as the challenges of their families, were chronicled in a recent story in the Journal Star.
Bennett died from an overdose of heroin, fentanyl (a synthetic opioid used for pain medication and with other drugs as anesthesia), clonazepam (a tranquilizer often used for panic disorders) and methamphetamine (a stimulant often made and sold illegally), according to a forensic pathologist s report. The same pathologist said Rodgers died from an overdose of fentanyl, clonazepam and methamphetamine.
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UPDATED 4:05 p.m. | A 17-year-old boy has been arrested on first-degree murder charges after a shooting late Wednesday in north Peoria.
The shooting happened around 10:51 p.m. Wednesday at a residence in the 1700 block of West Thames Drive, police said. The initial emergency call came in as a a report of trouble between a male and female.
Killed in the shooting was Leigh Herring, Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said Thursday. Herring was previously in the Illinois Army National Guard and was injured while serving in Afghanistan in 2009, according to media reports.
Officers found Herring, 39, with a gunshot wound to the head. He was dead at the scene.
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2020 was a blur. So many important things happened in the Tri-County area, from COVID-19 to racial justice protests to the recession. Oh, and a presidential election.
Here is a look at the Top 10 most-read stories from 2020 on WCBU.org.
In the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minnesota, a 28-year-old Galesburg man faced federal charges for allegedly inciting riots in Chicago and Minneapolis. There were also incidents of vandalism and looting throughout Peoria and many other communities in early June, part of a larger nationwide civil unrest tied to Floyd’s death. What s happening in our city, our state, and our nation, is beyond horrendous and repulsive, said Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis.