Family of Sonya Massey, killed by police in her home, receive $10m settlement
An officer of Sangamon county, Illinois, is charged with first-degree murder for fatally shooting Massey
The family of Sonya Massey and officials from Sangamon county, Illinois, reached a settlement in which the Illinois county agreed to pay Massey’s family $10m.
The settlement comes nearly a year after Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman and mother of two, was shot and killed in her home by a sheriff’s deputy who was responding to her call for help.
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