White deputy Sean Grayson shot Sonya Massey, who called police fearing a home intruder, after boiling water dispute
Sonya Massey, 36, was killed early on the morning of 6 July by deputy Sean Grayson of the Sangamon county sheriff’s office in her home in Springfield, the Illinois state capitol.Massey had called police because she thought someone was trying to break into her home. When police arrived, they began looking into Massey’s home with flashlights, a neighbor, Cheryl Evans, told the Guardian.
As the pair stand there with their guns still drawn, Grayson says: “I’m not taking a bullet out of her fucking head,” then points out that the water from the pot had reached his feet. Mother of Sonya Massey mourns her daughter at a protest in front of the Sangamon county building in Springfield, Illinois, on 12 July.In the immediate aftermath of the video going public, President Joe Biden issued a statement calling Massey “a beloved mother, friend, daughter, and young Black woman” who “should be alive today”.
Massey leaves behind two teenage children, a son and a daughter. The pair played on a basketball hoop down the street from Massey’s home on the east side of Springfield, a racially mixed area of mostly low-income residents. Massey’s neighbor, Evans, said the mother of two was “such a nice girl”, who “was probably scared to death” when police began looking into her home with flashlights following her 911 call.
Sean Grayson, the former Illinois sheriff’s deputy charged in the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey during a call for help at her home.Massey’s family is being represented by attorney Ben Crump, who compared Massey’s killing to the murders of Floyd and Emmett Till.
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