SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois sheriff’s deputy has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a woman inside her home. Authorities in Springfield say Sonya Massey was killed after Sangamon County deputies responded to her 911 call early on July 6.
Bodycam video of the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey was released Monday afternoon. The video shows the chaotic scene after a sheriff's deputy shot Massey, who is Black, in the face during a tense moment over a pot of water in her home.
The sheriff’s office in Sangamon County, Illinois, released body-camera footage Monday recorded during the fatal police shooting of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who had called 911 for help.
There have been protests and murder charges lodged against fired deputy sheriff who fatally shot an Illinois woman who had called 911 for help. A video tape of the shooting was released Monday.
Sean Grayson, an Illinois sheriff's deputy, is facing murder charges after newly released bodycam video showed the fatal police shooting of Sonya Massey, a...
Sonya Massey ducked and apologized to an Illinois sheriff’s deputy seconds before he shot the woman three times in her home, with one fatal blow to the head, as seen in body camera video.
The woman, Sonya Massey, 36, called 911 on July 6 because she believed there was an intruder in her home. She was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy who has been fired and is charged with murder.
