The Sonya Massey family and Sangamon County officials, Illinois, has reached a settlement in which Selinois District agreed to pay Massey’s family 10 mil.
The settlement comes for almost a year after Massey, a 36-year-old woman and mother two, was killed and killed in his home Sheriff’s deputy that responded to her call for help.
The settlement is likely to help avoid the lawsuit against Sean Grayson shooting, former deputy. Grayson, 30, charged with the murder of the first degree in Massey’s death.
Jack Campbell, former Sangamon County Sheriff, who hired Grayson, pulled himself after the shooting. County came to an agreement with the judicial department To ensure that they have tools for adequate training of their departments in escalation techniques, dealing with disabilities for mental health and non-discriminatory police.
After the shooting, she called the Civic Commission in Sangomon County MASSEY Commission, It was founded “to take actions and give recommendations that expand safe and fair access to services by throwing system racism and mistrust in law enforcement and other occupations,” the Commission’s website.
Before county officials voted about the settlement, Andy Van Meter, Chairman of the Committee of the Sangomon County, was released.
“No priced prices cannot return the shares of the former Former, but this agreement is the effort to provide a certain measure of fees in Massey family for their unimaginable loss” Memo reads.
“The county remains dedicated to the work with the community to strengthen policies to try to ensure that these tragedies do not happen again.”
Massey’s death received national attention as another example of police brutality and police killing people who need help for mental health.
In the days leading to the shooting, and Massey and her mother has been called 911 several times. Massey’s mother especially asked the dispatcher that no one sends “prejudice” and said he didn’t want anyone to hurt his daughter.
On the day of shooting, Massey called urgent surveys to report suspicious Prowler. Grayson and another Sheriff’s deputy answered the call. As he talked to Massey in her living room, Grayson said to another deputy that he removed the water pot from the oven.
Massey removed the pot himself, noted that Grayson disseminated him from her, and told him, “I bring him I guide you in the name of Jesus.” Grayson drew weapons and shouted at Massey to throw a pot. She bent behind the counter and she apologized. Grayson recorded three times and killed massees with shooting in the head.
“When Sonya Massey stared at the gun barrel, she said, ‘Sorry, sir, and the bullet was shot while it was in this tanged position Ben Crump, who presents Massey’s family, He said in a press conference last year.
“Autopsy confirms what everyone already knows that it is only meaningless, unnecessary, excessive use of force.”
After the murder, Massey’s family said she was descendants William Donnegan, The drawing that was Linken with a white edge during the race riots in Springfield in 1908, who killed 17 black people during the two-day period. After a race riot, a group of black and white Americans gathered Create a national association for improving colored people (NAACP). It was relative to remarked last year that Massey was taken to the same hospital as her ancestor after shooting. It was there that Massey was pronounced dead and where, 116 years earlier, Donnegan also uttered dead.
Massey’s family is expected to hold a press conference on the settlement on Wednesday, which would be her 37. Birthday.
2025-02-12 18:41:00
