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Posted on: July 5, 2024

[ARCHIVED] 7/5/24 Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon

(PEORIA, IL) Thursday, July 4, 2024, at approximately 11:32 p.m. Peoria Police were conducting a patrol in the 600 block of W. Main when they observed an adult male walking through a parking lot with a handgun partially concealed on his person.
Police then observed the male identified as 28-year-old Kalvin T. Cornish-Kirkwood enter a vehicle in the same parking lot. Officers immediately made contact with Cornish-Kirkwood and took him into custody without incident.
The firearm was recovered from the vehicle, and Cornish-Kirkwood was subsequently arrested for Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon.
He was transported to the Peoria County Jail.
If you have any information regarding any violent crimes, please contact the Peoria Police Department at (309) 673-4521, tip411 (anonymously), or Crime Stoppers (anonymously) at (309) 673-9000.
**All suspects and arrestees are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. **

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