Sean Grayson, former Illinois deputy convicted of killing Sonya Massey, dies in prison, lawyer says
Sean Grayson, a former Illinois sheriff’s deputy whose fatal shooting of Sonya Massey inside her home became a flashpoint over police use of force, died Sunday while serving a 20-year prison sentence.
Grayson’s attorney, Daniel Fultz, confirmed that his client died earlier Sunday but declined to provide any further details.
Grayson, 32, was convicted of second-degree murder in October in the fatal shooting of Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who had reported a possible prowler outside her Springfield-area home. Body camera video of the July 2024 encounter showed Massey crouching in her kitchen and apologizing moments before Grayson shot her in the face.
He was sentenced in January to the maximum 20 years in prison.
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CBS is reporting cancer as the cause of death. Just dropping an update.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/sean-grayson-former-sangamon-county-deputy-dies-in-prison/
Poor cancer.
Fuck cancer... except in this case.
Oh no — today is Monday already? Shit.
Rot in hell etc., but the police departments who kept hiring the cunt despite the glaring red flags should join him.
And nothing of value was lost.
I hope every second of his ten months in
personprison was hell.*Edit: I was tired
He died of colon cancer. I can practically guarantee it was.
Two things:
This chud was young. Cancer has to be super rare and fast acting if it killed him in two years.
Or this motherfucker knew he was dying of cancer, and wanted to go out by slaying a innocent person.
Any chronic health issue in prison is going to be bad. American prisoners are often not given prompt or effective medical care.
It's not a good situation.
no, its not, because that guy owes us all many more years of prison time and now he's not going to sleaze his way out of it.
American non-prisoners are often not given prompt or effective medical care too.
It's not a good situation.
Do cops have good health care? I would assume they do, so unless it was terminal, bonehead move.
No one has good healthcare in prison.
Good riddance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sonya_Massey
https://youtu.be/ln1KpEFaWw8?t=56
Thanks for the link!
Apparently, the guy had stage 3 colon cancer when he murdered the victim and died of it in prison. Almost as if nature had decided in advance this guy was no good.
I'm sure he got killed by a kettle
Cancer
Aww, couldn't live with the consequences? Too bad...shouldn't have done what you did.