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Former Illinois Sheriff’s Deputy Sentenced to 20 Years for Murder of Sonya Massey
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Rolling Stone
Former Illinois Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of Sonya Massey.
Grayson fatally shot Massey in her home in 2024 after she called 911 to report a suspected intruder in her Springfield home.
While Grayson was initially charged with three counts of first-degree murder, a jury convicted him of the lesser second-degree murder charge.
According to the video, Grayson instructed Massey to step away from a pot of boiling water on the stove in her kitchen.
It also brought on the passage of the Sonya Massey Bill in Illinois, which creates stricter hiring requirements for law enforcement, increasing accountability.