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Boy's Death Possibly Linked to Earlier Shooting
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- Police have released the identity of an 8-year-old boy killed in a drive-by shooting and say his death may be related to the shooting of a 3-year-old last year.

Albert Billups-Wilson was sleeping on a mattress in a Peoria home with two other children Thursday when bullets tore into the building. One killed him. Nobody else was hurt.

Police told the (Peoria) Journal Star that a man who was in that home was believed to be the target of a drive-by shooting in December.

The man wasn't injured but a 3-year-old boy was shot in the head and was hospitalized for several days.

No one has been arrested in either shooting. Police have pleaded with the public for help in this week's fatal shooting.

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