Six months after what turned into a fatal 911 call in 2024, Sangamon County officials have agreed to a $10 million settlement with the family of Sonya Massey, the 36-year-old mother of two who was ...

(CNN) — Officials in Sangamon County, Illinois, have agreed to a $10 million settlement with the family of Sonya Massey –– a Black woman who was shot and killed by law enforcement in her home last ...

Sonya Massey, the Illinois woman fatally shot by a deputy while responding to her 911 call, died by homicide due to a gunshot wound to her head, according to an autopsy report released Friday by the ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — County officials in Springfield, Illinois, have agreed to pay $10 million to the family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman shot and killed in her home last summer by a ...

The former Illinois sheriff’s deputy charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman killed inside her Sangamon county home, had been employed by a half-dozen ...

SPRINGFIELD -- Saying it was "the least political, but most politically important thing" she has done as a lawmaker, State Sen. Doris Turner, D-Springfield, watched as Gov. JB Pritzker signed the ...

Last summer, on July 6, we learned of a new reason for the police to kill an unarmed Black person: a pot of hot water. Sonya Massey, then 36, had called 911 when she suspected an intruder at her home ...

Demonstrators gather at Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago to protest the police killing of Sonya Massey on July 27, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. Massey was shot and killed by police in her home on July ...