
The family of Sonya Massey and officials from Sangamon county, Illinois, reached a settlement in which the Illinois county agreed to pay Massey’s family $10m.
The settlement comes nearly a year after Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman and mother of two, was shot and killed in her home by a sheriff’s deputy who was responding to her call for help.
The settlement will probably help avoid a lawsuit over the shooting by Sean Grayson, a former deputy. Grayson, 30, is charged with first-degree murder in Massey’s death.