PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois sheriff's deputy who killed Sonya Massey in her Springfield home last year eschewed his training and the principles of policing when he shot the Black woman who had called 911 for help, a prosecutor said Wednesday in Sean Grayson's murder trial.

Grayson, who is white, faces three counts of first-degree murder for shooting the 36-year-old single mother on July 6, 2024, during a confrontation over her handling of a pot of hot water she removed from her stove.

Sangamon County State’s Attorney John Milhiser told the jury of eight women and four men in Peoria, where the trial was moved due to national attention, that body camera video will show Massey posed no threat when Grayson and another Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy, Dawson Farley, entered her home. Ma

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