Sean Grayson, the previous Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy, was sentenced on Thursday to twenty years in jail after he was convicted in October 2025 of second-degree homicide for the July 2024 deadly capturing of Sonya Massey, a Black girl who known as 911 to report a potential intruder at her residence in Springfield, Illinois.
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