Seventeen-year-old Kanye Avant Amere Stowers was shot and killed on the night of April 8, 2022, after gunfire erupted at a house party in Bloomington, Illinois. Officers were dispatched about 11:30 p.m. to the 400 block of East Mill Street; as they arrived they heard shots and found Stowers on the front steps of a residence with a gunshot wound. Family records list his date of death as April 8, 2022.

Stowers was a senior at Richwoods High School in Peoria, remembered as a class clown who made people laugh and who produced his own music; his cap and gown were reportedly hanging at home and he planned to study psychology. Investigators appealed to the public for tips in the months after the shooting, and Bloomington police described the scene as frantic with shots occurring shortly before midnight.

A McLean County grand jury indicted a suspect on Dec. 20, 2023, and U.S. Marshals arrested 20-year-old Tomiyale M. Anderson of Hampton, Georgia, on Dec. 27, 2023, on charges including four counts of murder, attempted murder and aggravated discharge of a firearm tied to the party shooting. A judge ordered Anderson held pending trial; as of May 21, 2025, he was awaiting trial.

If anyone attended that party or has information about the shooting on East Mill Street, please come forward.