Sonya Massey’s family has reached a $10 million settlement more than six months after she was shot and killed in her Illinois home by a deputy responding to her call about a possible prowler. Lawyers ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Sonya Massey Act, which aims to increase police accountability by revising hiring procedures in Illinois, was signed into law Tuesday and will take effect Jan. 1, 2026. The new ...

The second day of testimony has ended in the trial of ex-sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson, who faces murder charges for fatally shooting a Black woman in her Illinois home after she called 911 for help.

“Somehow it needs to make sense,” James Wilburn said about the release of former sheriff's deputy Sean Grayson Thomas J. Turney/The State Journal-Register The father of Sonya Massey — the Illinois ...

PINE BLUFF, Ark — The phrase gone but not forgotten rings true for one Arkansas father who continues searching for justice following the death of his daughter. This week marks six months since an ...

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PINE BLUFF, Ark. — Saturday's rainy weather did not stop friends and family from attending Sonya Massey's Birthday Memorial Concert at Old St. James Missionary Baptist Church in Pine Bluff. Massey ...

Illinois law now requires that prospective police officers approve the release of personal background records in response to last summer’s shooting of Sonya Massey, an unarmed Black woman, in her home ...

Sean Grayson, a former Sangamon County sheriff's deputy, has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the July 2024 shooting death of Sonya Massey Massey, a 36-year-old mother of two, had called ...