A Peoria County Judge granted the State’s motion on April 14 to transfer Cedric L. Parker, age 16, to adult court following a November 2025 armed robbery. Parker will be tried as an adult for Armed Robbery and will remain at the Peoria County Juvenile Detention Center until his trial.
The decision to transfer Parker considered several factors, including the seriousness of the alleged offense, his age, prior juvenile history, and any potential threat he may pose to public safety.
According to details presented in court, police responded on November 21, 2025, around 9:40 p.m. after a reported armed robbery in an alley near the 1700 block of N. Peoria Avenue. The victim told officers that multiple males approached him with handguns and ordered him to remove personal items while one suspect recorded the event on a cell phone. Detectives later received a recording of the incident posted on Snapchat and identified 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 related to this case; their cases are currently at various stages in court proceedings.
Peoria County schools had an average student-to-teacher ratio of fifteen-to-one during the 2022-23 school year with more than twenty-seven thousand students enrolled and over eighteen hundred full-time faculty members according to data from the Illinois State Board of Education. The county’s teacher absenteeism rate was recorded at thirty-two point three percent during that period—slightly lower than Illinois’ statewide average as reported by state education officials.
Dunlap High School had the highest enrollment of white students among local schools last year with eight hundred seventy-three students according to state records. Richwoods High School led in multiracial student enrollment with one hundred eighty-two students as noted by official data, while Lincoln School recorded two hundred eighteen Hispanic students—the highest such figure in Peoria County based on state statistics. Peoria High School had seven hundred ninety-eight Black students enrolled—the largest number for that demographic locally according to education reports.
Authorities say this investigation is ongoing and ask anyone with information about this incident to contact the Peoria Police Department.
