PEORIA, Ill. – A 17-year-old will be tried as an adult for his role in a deadly shooting last month in South Peoria.
The Peoria County State’s Attorney’s Office says Lamar Cagle was ordered to remain in custody Wednesday on First Degree Murder charges.
Cagle is the third person arrested in the homicide of 20-year-old Teron Scott on the morning of June 20th.
Scott was found with a gunshot wound in the rear seat of a vehicle that crashed into a tree at MLK Park, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Prosecutors say Cagle was allegedly the third person in the other vehicle involved, which reportedly fired shots at the victim’s vehicle after driving recklessly to catch up to it.
20-year-old Christopher Adams and 18-year-old Kamereon Bell were also allegedly in the vehicle, with both also charged with First-Degree Murder. Prosecutors say Adams confessed to police that he was the driver of the vehicle, with Bell sitting in the rear passenger seat.
