2 days ago · Attorney Ben Crump, left, helps Donna Massey, mother of Sonya Massey, towards the podium during a press conference over the shooting death of Sonya, who was killed by Illinois sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson, at New Mount Pilgrim Church in the Garfield Park neighborhood in Chicago, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Chicago Sun ...

On July 6, 2024, Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman, was shot and killed in her home by Sean Grayson, a white deputy of the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office in Woodside Township near Springfield, Illinois, United States.

2 days ago · Officials in Sangamon County, Illinois, have agreed to a $10 million settlement with the family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who was shot and k i lled i n her home last summer after ...

2 days ago · An Illinois county has agreed to pay $10 million to the family of Sonya Massey, an unarmed Black woman who was fatally shot by a white sheriff’s deputy last year after she called 911 because she ...

Jul 27, 2024 · Years before sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson gunned down Sonya Massey in her own home, he had been discharged from the Army for serious misconduct and had a history of driving under the...

Jul 24, 2024 · Sonya Massey called the police to report a suspected prowler outside her home, but tensions escalated when she approached her stove to tend to a pot of boiling water. The Illinois State Police on...

Jul 24, 2024 · Sonya Massey ducked and apologized to an Illinois sheriff’s deputy only seconds before he shot her three times in her home, with one fatal blow to the head, as seen in body camera video released Monday.

Jul 22, 2024 · Body-camera footage showing the fatal police shooting of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who had called 911 for help, was released Monday in a case that has led to murder charges against...

Jul 22, 2024 · Authorities released body camera footage Monday of Sonya Massey's final moments before she was fatally shot by law enforcement at her home in Springfield, Illinois.

2 days ago · Sonya Massey was fatally shot July 6 by Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson during a confrontation inside her home. Grayson, who has been fired and is awaiting trial on murder charges in Massey’s ...