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FILE - In this image taken from body camera video released by Illinois State Police on Monday, July 22, 2024, former Sangamon County Sheriff's Deputy Sean Grayson, left, points his gun at Sonya Massey, who called 911 for help, before shooting and killing her inside her home in Springfield, Ill., July 6, 2024. (Illinois State Police via AP, file)

PEORIA, Ill. – An Illinois jury is set to continue deliberations Wednesday in the first-degree murder trial of a sheriff's deputy who shot Sonya Massey , a Black woman who had called 911 for help and was later killed in her home because of the way she was handling a pan of hot water.

The nine-woman, three-man jury received the case Tuesday and deliberated for about 6 1/2 hours. Jurors must decide whether Sean Grayson , 31, is guilty

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