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submitted 5 hours ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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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[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 8 points 1 hour ago

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.

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 1 points 28 minutes ago

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.

[-] dregan@lemmy.world 1 points 16 minutes ago

American non-prisoners are often not given prompt or effective medical care too.

It's not a good situation.

[-] Entropy_Pyre@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 hours ago
[-] RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 hours ago

Poor cancer.

Fuck cancer... except in this case.

[-] RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 hours ago
[-] Throbbing_banjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 22 points 4 hours ago

And nothing of value was lost.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 17 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)
[-] manxu@piefed.social 3 points 1 hour 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.

[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 29 points 5 hours ago

Oh no — today is Monday already? Shit.

[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 hours ago

I'm sure he got killed by a kettle

[-] Toasticus@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago

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

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