An Illinois woman was killed by a deputy after she called 911, authorities say. The deputy is charged with murder
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An Illinois woman was fatally shot inside her home this month by a sheriff’s deputy who responded to her 911 call, and the deputy is now charged with murder in the case, a prosecutor Wednesday.
An Illinois woman was fatally shot inside her home this month by a sheriff’s deputy who responded to her 911 call, and the deputy is now charged with murder in the case, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Sonya Massey, 36, called 911 on July 6 because she thought an intruder was in her home in the Springfield area, according to the law office of Ben Crump, the civil rights attorney representing her family. Sangamon County sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson and another deputy responded to the call around 12:50 a.m., and Grayson fatally shot Massey “during (an) interaction inside the home,” the state’s attorney for the county, John Milhiser, said in a Wednesday news release. The sheriff’s office had said the deputies reported the shooting around 1:20 a.m., and that it happened after the deputies searched the area. No deputies were injured, the sheriff’s office said, and Crump’s office has said Massey was unarmed. Authorities have not publicly said why the shooting happened or what led up to it. But an Illinois State Police investigation of the case did “not support a finding that … Grayson was justified in his use of deadly force,” Milhiser said. A Sangamon County grand jury on Wednesday indicted Grayson on three counts of first-degree murder and a count each of aggravated battery with a firearm and official misconduct, Milhiser said. Grayson was in custody Wednesday and will be arraigned Thursday, the prosecutor said.
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