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.
21 Comments
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 49 pts · 21d
Oh no — today is Monday already? Shit.
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 21d
And nothing of value was lost.
Entropy_Pyre@lemmy.ca · 37 pts · 21d
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/
RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 21d
Poor cancer.
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de · 16 pts · 21d
Fuck cancer... except in this case.
Throbbing_banjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 32 pts · 21d
I hope every second of his ten months in
personprison was hell.*Edit: I was tired
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 21d
He died of colon cancer. I can practically guarantee it was.
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 21d
Good riddance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sonya_Massey
https://youtu.be/ln1KpEFaWw8?t=56
manxu@piefed.social · 12 pts · 21d
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.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 20 pts · 21d
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.
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 21d
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.
dregan@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 21d
American non-prisoners are often not given prompt or effective medical care too.
It's not a good situation.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 20d
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.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 21d
Do cops have good health care? I would assume they do, so unless it was terminal, bonehead move.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 21d
No one has good healthcare in prison.
RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 21d
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 21d
I'm sure he got killed by a kettle
RFKJrsBrainworm@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 21d
Cancer
58008@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 21d
Rot in hell etc., but the police departments who kept hiring the cunt despite the glaring red flags should join him.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 21d
Toasticus@piefed.social · 1 pts · 21d
Aww, couldn't live with the consequences? Too bad...shouldn't have done what you did.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 21d