If you’re looking for a silver lining to the dark cloud of two homicides within two weeks in Peoria, it can be found in the fact that police have a suspect in custody for each case. There are still 11 homicides from 2006 that remain unsolved with nary a suspect.
Within a week after this year’s first homicide, police arrested Bryce K. Lowder of 1017 W. Wilcox Ave. “on a charge of murder in connection with the slaying of 18-year-old DeAndre T. Allen,” according to the 1/7/07 Journal Star. Today the paper reports that “Shane L. Heuck, 1711 N. Douglas St., was booked on a charge of first-degree murder in connection with the death of Virginia K. Mallow.”
Let’s just hope now that the state’s attorney will do a good job prosecuting them and get a couple of convictions.
Hopefully they are just as effective putting a stop to the rash of breakins occuring on the East and West Bluffs.
Somehow I don’t fell better or safer now that the Police are 2 for 2.
I have to agree with both the previous callers. Why it’s nice that they are 2 for 2 this year on homicide arrests, the biggest impact of crime on the average individual isn’t homicides but thefts, robberies, and similar types of crimes.
While I don’t want to downplay the impact of murders on the community, I’m much more impacted by other crimes that are occurring in the community.
And Emtronics hit it on the head – I’d rather see the actual number of homicides dropping rather than the solve rate increasing. But if that can’t occur, at least it’s nice to see the arrests taking place.
Emtronics — I don’t disagree with you; just looking for the bright side… it’s getting more and more difficult to find these days.
I am glad that Barbara Van Auken called neighborhood leaders around the area of the murder on Doubet Ct. to let them know that the police had someone in custody. If these gentleman are guilty, I hope they don’t see the light of day again.
“just looking for the bright side…”
But but but…. the Chief says crime is going down. Why do I feel otherwise?