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Posted on: August 21, 2025

[ARCHIVED] Aggravated Battery with a Golf Club

(PEORIA, IL) On Wednesday, August 20, 2025, at approximately 10:20 a.m., Peoria Police officers responded to the 2200 block of N. Knoxville Avenue regarding a report of three men fighting.

Upon arrival, officers located an adult male who had been struck in the head with a golf club. The victim was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

While on scene, officers identified and apprehended the suspect, 19-year-old Landon A. Andrus.

Andrus was arrested for Aggravated Battery and transported to the Peoria County Jail.

If you have any information about violent crimes, please contact the Peoria Police Department at (309) 673-4521. Tips can also be submitted anonymously through tip411 or by calling Crime Stoppers at (309) 673-9000.

**All suspects and arrestees are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. **

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