The governor said Sheriff Jack Campbell 'has failed to explain how he ended up hiring this deputy sheriff' who shot and killed Sonya Massey.
CHICAGO -- Gov. JB Pritzker is calling on a downstate Illinois sheriff to resign over his handling of the shooting death of Sonya Massey, who was killed by a sheriff's deputy who has since been fired and charged with murder.At an unrelated event on Wednesday, Pritzker said he and Lt. Gov. Julianna Stratton have called on Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell to resign because, 'He has failed to explain how he ended up hiring this deputy sheriff' who shot and killed Massey.
'Grayson was fired from the Sangamon County Sheriff's office and has been charged with first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm, and official misconduct in Massey's death. He has pleaded not guilty.Meanwhile, his past has raised new questions over the decision to hire him in the first place. Before he was fired from the Sangamon County Sheriff's office, Grayson had worked for six law enforcement agencies in four years.
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