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.

2024年7月24日 · Sean Grayson, the 30-year-old Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy who has since been fired from the agency, was indicted by a grand jury on July 17 on three counts of first-degree murder and one...

2024年8月26日 · Grayson has been charged with first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm and official misconduct in Massey's death after she called 911 to report a prowler. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and remains in custody. A review by Illinois State Police found Grayson was not justified in his use of deadly force.

2024年7月30日 · Sean Grayson fatally shot 36-year-old Massey at her home where he and another deputy were responding to a 911 call about a possible intruder on July 6. While Grayson did not turn on his...

2024年9月1日 · By the time then-sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson gunned down a 36-year-old mother in her home, fellow law enforcement officers and residents in the Illinois communities he served had already...

2024年7月24日 · Sean Grayson, 14 months into his career as a deputy sheriff for Sangamon County in the center of the state, is charged with murder in Massey’s death, the latest example of law enforcement officers shooting Black people in their homes across the country.

2024年7月27日 · 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...

2024年9月5日 · The village of around 1,300 previously employed Sean Grayson, the sheriff's deputy charged with murdering Sonya Massey. While at Kincaid, he had a criminal case thrown out after recommending felony drug charges against a man he admitted evidence didn't exist for.

Former Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson, who is now charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey, was previously discharged from the U.S. Army for serious misconduct — and still hired at six police departments in central Illinois.

2024年7月19日 · Sean P. Grayson, who has since been terminated from the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office, was arraigned before Presiding Circuit Judge Ryan Cadagin in Sangamon County Court Thursday on three...