U.S. Opens Investigation Into Killing of Sonya Massey

Statement on the Murder of Sonya Massey - DRNC

In recent years, several high-profile police killings of Black people with mental health disabilities have brought the ongoing oppression felt ...

U.S. Opens Investigation Into Killing of Sonya Massey - RabidBadger

The Justice Department notified Sangamon County, Ill., that it had opened a civil rights investigation after reports about the shooting ...

Illinois deputy charged in Sonya Massey's fatal shooting worked for ...

Sean Grayson, who has been charged with murder, had short stints as a part-time officer at three small police departments and a full-time job at a fourth ...

Killing of Sonya Massey - Wikipedia

On July 6, 2024, Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old black woman, was shot and killed in her home by Sean Grayson, a white deputy of the Sangamon County Sheriff's ...

The police killing of Sonya Massey shows why the law alone cannot ...

... in America. It is also, however, raising questions about whether Sean Grayson – the sheriff's deputy who killed Massey – should have even ...

Activists demand reform, justice after Sonya Massey killing - PBS

The Justice Department opened an investigation into the killing of a Black woman by an Illinois sheriff's deputy who shot her inside her home earlier this ...

Sonya Massey's shooting is a national shame | Social Work Blog

By Mel Wilson, NASW Senior Policy Advisor. Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old mother and Woodside Township, IL resident, called 911 on July 6 to ...

Massey family attorney: DOJ opening investigation into Springfield ...

He was originally told ...

Sonya Massey killing sparks renewed scrutiny of police hiring

The Illinois deputy sheriff who killed Sonya Massey had worked for six law enforcement agencies in four years. Observers have questioned how ...

Illinois community is reeling following the killing of 36-year-old ...

Justice Department officials met with law enforcement and residents of Springfield, Ill., after the death of Sonya Massey, who was shot by a ...

Stateline law enforcement respond to murder of Sonya Massey - WIFR

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DOJ to investigate Sonya Massey shooting - MSNBC News

The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the death of Sonya Massey, a Black woman in Illinois who called 911 for help only to ...

Sonya Massey Information - Sangamon County

Why did the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office respond to Sonya's 911 call on July 6 and not the Springfield Police Department? There were three other calls that ...

Sonya Massey: Bodycam video reveals chaotic scene of fatal police ...

Sonya Massey ducked and apologized to an Illinois sheriff's deputy only seconds before he shot her three times in her home, with one fatal blow to the head.

In Wake of Sonya Massey's Murder, Duckworth, Senate Democrats ...

[WASHINGTON, D.C] – U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today is leading a dozen of her Senate Democratic colleagues in re-introducing ...

Supporters at Sonya Massey rally in Springfield

Dameon Johnson of Springfield said he didn't know Sonya Massey. But when Johnson, president of the East Springfield Community Center ...

Bodycam video reveals chaotic scene of deputy fatally shooting ...

Sonya Massey ducked and apologized to an Illinois sheriff's deputy seconds before he shot the Black woman three times in her home, with one ...

DOJ confirms investigation into Sonya Massey's death amid public ...

The U.S. DOJ initiated an investigation into the death of Sonya Massey, who was fatally shot by an officer in her own home after calling 911 ...

Sonya Massey's family: These 2 changes in law enforcement hiring ...

The family of an Illinois mother gunned down in her home by a sheriff's deputy wants a nationwide database of officers' violations and ...

Sheriff asks forgiveness for Sonya Massey shooting - ABC News

The sheriff for Illinois' Sangamon County Sheriff's Office, which employed the former deputy who shot and killed Sonya Massey in her home ...