Sean Grayson, a former Illinois sheriff’s deputy, was on trial in the 2024 killing of Massey, a Black mother of two who had called 911 about a possible prowler.

Over a year after Sonya Massey was shot and killed by former police officer Sean Grayson inside her own home, an Illinois jury has handed out a shocking verdict. After 12 hours of deliberation, Grayson was found guilty of second-degree murder, and Black Americans online have strong opinions about it all.

An Illinois jury has begun deliberating over the first-degree murder charges against a sheriff's deputy in the shooting death last year of Sonya Massey, a Black woman in her home who had called 911 for help.

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