PEORIA ( 25News Now ) - On Monday, Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood released the identity of the teenager killed in a Saturday shooting at the Lexington Hills Apartments in Central Peoria.

The coroner said 17-year-old Matthew Day of Peoria had two gunshot wounds and died instantly at OSF Healthcare St. Francis Medical Center, despite life-saving measures being implemented.

Peoria Public Schools confirmed Day was a student at Manual High School.

Just before 11:30 p.m. Saturday , Peoria police were called to the shooting at the 3400 block of West Oakcrest Drive, near North Molleck Drive. Officers said they found Day unresponsive in an apartment after he was shot twice in the torso.

Police said they found a second victim, a 21-year-old man, in a nearby apartment with gunshot wound

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