Phillip Jackson is a reporter on HuffPost's national desk covering social justice. Before this, he worked as a criminal justice reporter with the Baltimore Sun, as well as in Memphis and Philadelphia covering policing. Phillip can be reached at phillip.jackson@huffpost.
Donna Massey, the mother of shooting victim Sonya Massey , is comforted during a press conference at New Mount Pilgrim Church on July 30, 2024, in Chicago. Sonya Massey ’s mother called 911 to report her daughter having a mental breakdown a day before Massey, 36, was fatally shot inside of her home by an Illinois deputy, according to emergency call audio released this week.
Then, in another 911 call around 1 p.m. that same day, Sonya Massey said that a neighbor had gone to her house and was causing problems, alleging that the person had broken her driver’s seat window with a brick. Sometime after that call, Massey went to the hospital. It’s unclear if she went on her own or was accompanied by police.Once at the hospital, Massey told medical personnel that she had broken another window herself on the driver’s side of her car to get into the vehicle and get away.
In this image taken from body-camera video released by Illinois State Police, Sonya Massey, left, talks with Sean Grayson outside her home in Springfield, Illinois, on July 6, 2024. Footage released Monday, July 22, reveals a chaotic scene in which Grayson shoots Massey in the face in her own home after she called 911 for help.
Grayson’s personnel files show him leaving multiple law enforcement jobs over four years. Notes from Grayson’s Sangamon County hiring process indicate that the Virden Police Department reported Grayson was “proactive and worked well with the public,” but also that he “did not demonstrate good officer safety skills.” The police chief at the time said that “he believes that was because was new to the job.
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