Cop Who Killed Sonya Massey Worked For 6 Departments

Since August of 2020, Sean Grayson worked less than one year at the Auburn (Ill.) Police Department, one year at the Logan County (Ill.) Sheriff’s Office, and then just over a year with the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office, the records obtained by WCIA show. He was also employed with police departments in Virden, Kincaid and Pawnee. Grayson was arrested twice for Class A misdemeanor DUIs, once in 2015 and once in 2016. “There was all these red flags, and yet they still made him a deputy in (Sangamon) County,” said James Wilburn, the father of Sonya Massey. Massey, 36, was killed in the early morning hours of July 6 after she’d called 911 to report a suspected prowler. In body-cam footage showing her final moments, Massey ducked and apologized to Grayson seconds before he shot the Black woman three times in her home, with one fatal blow to the head.