A Peoria County judge granted the State’s motion on April 14 to transfer Cedric L. Parker, age 16, to adult court following his involvement in a November 2025 armed robbery. Parker will be tried as an adult and will remain detained at the Peoria County Juvenile Detention Center until his trial.
The decision was made after considering several factors such as the seriousness of the offense, Parker’s age, his prior juvenile history, and potential threat to public safety. The case stems from a reported armed robbery that took place on November 21, 2025, around 9:40 p.m., in an alley near the 1700 block of N. Peoria Avenue. According to authorities, multiple males approached a victim while armed with handguns and threatened him before ordering him to remove his pants, shoes, and watch. One suspect reportedly recorded the event on a cell phone.
Detectives were shown a recording of the robbery posted on Snapchat by the victim and identified several suspects through their social media accounts. In addition to Parker, Jorden J. Foster (20), Shamari D. Joiner (19), Kenmetris T. Cockfield (18), and another male aged 17 have also been charged with Armed Robbery; their cases are at various stages in court.
The investigation remains ongoing and police encourage anyone with information about this incident to contact the Peoria Police Department at 309-673-4521.
In related community data from education statistics during the most recent school year, Peoria County had an average student-to-teacher ratio of fifteen-to-one across its schools with over twenty-seven thousand students enrolled according to state education records. Teacher absenteeism in county schools stood at thirty-two point three percent compared to Illinois’ average of thirty-five point six percent as reported by state sources.
Among local schools in Peoria County during that period: Dunlap High School had the highest enrollment of white students with eight hundred seventy-three; Richwoods High School had one hundred eighty-two multiracial students—the highest for that group; Lincoln School enrolled two hundred eighteen Hispanic students—the largest among county schools; while Peoria High School had seven hundred ninety-eight Black students enrolled—the highest number for Black student enrollment according to official data.
