BCN #46 Former sheriff’s deputy who shot Sonya Massey held 6 police jobs over past 4 years.

BCN #46
Former sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot Sonya Massey held 6 police jobs over past 4 years.

Sean Grayson was fired from the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office last week.

The former sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot Sonya Massey in her Illinois home while responding to her call for help has held six different police jobs since 2020, the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board confirmed to ABC News.

Body camera footage released Monday shows former deputy Sean Grayson yelling at Massey, an unarmed 36-year-old Black woman and mother of two, to put down a pot of boiling hot water.

The footage, reviewed by ABC News, shows that Massey told the deputy, “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,” and then she apologized after the officer threatened to shoot her. She poured the water into the sink and ducked down behind a counter, covering her face with what appears to be a red oven mitt. She briefly rose, and Grayson shot her three times in the face.

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