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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — An autopsy study released Friday successful the shooting decease of Sonya Massey, the Illinois pistillate changeable by a lawman aft she called for help, confirms she died of a slug to the head.
The autopsy released by Sangamon County Coroner Jim Allmon indicates the slug deed Massey beneath her near oculus and exited connected the posterior near broadside of her precocious neck. The changeable besides resulted successful a perforation to her near interior carotid artery, a skull fracture and hemorrhages.
Massey, 36, was killed successful the aboriginal greeting hours of July 6 aft she’d called 911 to study a suspected prowler. In a abrupt escalation captured connected the instrumentality enforcement officers’ assemblage cameras, Deputy Sean Grayson changeable Massey 3 times, with 1 fatal stroke to the head, arsenic she worked with a boiling cookware of water.
"This was conscionable a senseless, unnecessary, excessive usage of force," civilian rights lawyer Ben Crump said astatine a Friday quality league pursuing the merchandise of the report. "I mean, however tin you warrant this?"
Grayson, 30, has been terminated from the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office. An Illinois expansive assemblage indicted him past week. He has pleaded not blameworthy to charges of first-degree murder, aggravated artillery with a firearm and authoritative misconduct. State records show he worked for six antithetic instrumentality enforcement agencies since August 2020.
In a statement, a Department of Justice spokesperson said the bureau was “aware of and assessing the circumstances” surrounding Massey’s decease and would “continue to way the transgression lawsuit opened by the Sangamon County State’s Attorney.”
A GoFundMe relationship established Thursday that primitively sought $100,000 to assistance the household with counseling, travel, ineligible and household expenses had reached its extremity by midday Friday. The extremity connected the relationship was accrued to $200,000.
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