(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.
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