US EditionOpening statements Wednesday in trial of ex-Illinois officer who killed Sonya Massey
Trial moved to Peoria to ensure impartiality amid national attention; jury of 15 selected from 100 potential jurors to hear fatal shooting case.
- Sean Grayson was charged with first-degree murder after shooting Sonya Massey in her kitchen on July 6, 2024, as she reported a prowler outside her home.
- Grayson faces additional charges of aggravated battery with a firearm and official misconduct, to which he has pleaded not guilty.
- A Sangamon County judge transferred the trial to Peoria because of pretrial publicity.
- A jury was selected from a pool of 100 potential jurors.
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Sonya Massey shooting: Sean Grayson ‘got mad’ and fatally shot Massey without justification, prosecutor says
The Illinois sheriff’s deputy who killed Sonya Massey in her Springfield home last year eschewed his training and the principles of policing when he shot the Black woman who had called 911 for help, a prosecutor said Wednesday in Sean Grayson’s murder trial.
The trial underway for the sheriff who shot and killed Sonya Massey
Fifteen months after Sonya Massey, a Black woman who had called 911 for help, was killed in her home, the former police officer who fired the fatal shot is set to go on trial. Sean Grayson, 31, a former deputy for the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Department in central Illinois, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder. The trial was scheduled to begin Wednesday with opening statements. If convicted of murder, Grayson faces a se…
Opening statements begin Wednesday in trial of ex-Illinois officer who killed Sonya Massey
Fifteen months after Sonya Massey, a Black woman who had called 911 for help, was killed in her home, the former police officer who fired the fatal shot is set to go on trial.
Opening statements | Inside the Courtroom: The Sean Grayson Trial
Sean Grayson, a former Sangamon County Sheriff's deputy, is on trial for murder related to the July 6, 2024, shooting of Sonya Massey, with the issue being whether he was justified in his actions and followed departmental protocols regarding deadly force.
Opening statements begin in trial of former Illinois deputy accused of killing Sonya Massey
Lawyers gave their opening statements to a jury at the Peoria County Courthouse on Wednesday morning, officially kicking off the trial of a former Illinois deputy accused of fatally shooting Sonya Massey
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