PEORIA, Ill. – The Peoria County Coroner’s Office has identified the teenager shot to death inside a Peoria home Wednesday morning.
In a Facebook post, Coroner Jamie Harwood says 15-year-old Keyaun Schmittt-Hardimon, of Peoria, was pronounced dead at 8:35 a.m. Wednesday.
The teen was found inside a home on N. Sheridan Road about an hour earlier.
Harwood says autopsy results show Schmitt-Hardimon suffered multiple gunshot wounds and died instantly.
The homicide case remains under investigation by Peoria Police and the Coroner’s Office.