(East Peoria, IL) — New details from a police report are being released about a shooting and stabbing involving an East Peoria police officer. The report indicates that 19-year-old Joshua Crites was with a 16-year-old girl at the time of his death. The report says Crites allegedly stabbed the involved officer several times Tuesday in a CVS parking lot on Farmdale Road and Washington Street. The officer shot and killed Crites. The officer pulled over a vehicle occupied by Crites and the teen girl in response to a domestic dispute that originated at a home on Briargate Road in Washington. The investigation is ongoing.
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