(PEORIA, IL) On Thursday, August 7, 2025, at approximately 4:07 p.m., Peoria Police responded to the 800 block of W. Moss Avenue on a report of a person shot.
When officers arrived, they located an adult male with a gunshot wound to the leg. The victim was transported to a local hospital with serious injuries.
Members of the Peoria Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division (CID), Crime Scene Unit (CSU), and Patrol Unit responded to the scene and initiated an investigation.
During the course of this investigation, the suspect, identified as 23-year-old Ashwin J. Greenleaf, was located and arrested in Princeton, Illinois, with assistance from Princeton PD and Illinois State Police.
Greenleaf was subsequently arrested for Aggravated Battery, Aggravated Domestic Battery, Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon, and No valid FOID card.
He was transported to the Peoria County Jail.
If you have any information about any 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.**