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.

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[–] 11 points 18 hours ago

Rot in hell etc., but the police departments who kept hiring the cunt despite the glaring red flags should join him.

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    Two things:

    1. This chud was young. Cancer has to be super rare and fast acting if it killed him in two years.

    2. Or this motherfucker knew he was dying of cancer, and wanted to go out by slaying a innocent person.

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  • [–] 15 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 day ago

    Oh no — today is Monday already? Shit.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 day ago

    And nothing of value was lost.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 child)

    I hope every second of his ten months in person prison was hell.

    *Edit: I was tired

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  • [–] 11 points 21 hours ago

    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.

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    [–] 16 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I'm sure he got killed by a kettle

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Aww, couldn't live with the consequences? Too bad...shouldn't have done what you did.

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