DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) -- A 17-year-old is dead after a shooting Friday night in Decatur. 

Monday, the victim was identified as 17-year-old as Tevon Beasley of Decatur. 

Decatur police were called just after 10 p.m. Friday to a shooting at a business near East Wood Street and Jasper Street.

Police said officers found Beasley who had been shot. He was taken to Decatur Memorial Hospital, where he later died. 

Police said they obtained two search warrants for homes in Decatur.
 
DPD tells WAND News, Nehemiah Meyers of Decatur was arrested on a preliminary charge of first-degree murder and booked into the Macon County Jail.

The shooting is under investigation.

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