The father of Sonya Massey , who was fatally shot in her kitchen by former sheriff's deputy Sean Grayson last year, was emotional and expressed anger on Wednesday after Grayson was convicted .

Grayson, who was facing three counts of first-degree murder, was found guilty on one lesser count of second-degree murder, sparing him a possible life sentence for killing Massey, a 36-year-old unarmed Black woman.

"He told my child he would shoot her in the F-ing face and he did it. And all we got was a second-degree murder conviction out of this?" said Massey's father, James Wilburn.

"He was in six police departments in three and a half years. That is shameful," he said.

Grayson, who was a Sangamon County sheriff's deputy in Illinois at the time of the shooting, claimed he was defending

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