National Correspondent; Anchor, "CBS Weekend News" Jericka Duncan is a national correspondent and anchor of the "CBS Weekend News." She's based in New York City. The father of Sonya Massey, who was ...

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — A jury on Wednesday convicted an Illinois sheriff’s deputy of second-degree murder, a lesser charge, in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 to report a ...

PEORIA — A downstate jury convicted a white ex-cop of second-degree murder Wednesday for fatally shooting Sonya Massey in a verdict that bitterly disappointed family members of the slain, unarmed ...

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A verdict has been reached in the murder trial of Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson, charged with killing Sonya Massey. Grayson was charged with murder in the shooting death of Sonya ...

PEORIA, IL – A former Illinois sheriff’s deputy was found guilty of second-degree murder on Oct. 29 in the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey, an unarmed Black woman whose killing sparked protests and a ...

A jury on Wednesday convicted an Illinois sheriff’s deputy of second-degree murder, a lesser charge, in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 to report a suspected prowler.

Sean Grayson was charged with murder in the 2024 death of Sonya Massey, who was holding a pot of hot water when she was shot at her home near Springfield, Ill. By Mike Bailey and Mitch Smith Mike ...

A former Illinois sheriff’s deputy on Wednesday was convicted of fatally shooting an unarmed Black woman after she called 911 to report a prowler in her home, a lawyer representing the woman’s family ...

The fate of former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson is in the hands of a jury after closing arguments were made Tuesday. Grayson was charged with murder in the shooting death of Sonya ...

PEORIA — A white ex-cop charged with murdering an unarmed Black woman in her Springfield-area home last year testified Monday that he fired his gun in self-defense, and that his actions “matched the ...

The expert, Lewis Deckmurray, examined body camera video frame by frame. It's from the night Grayson shot and killed Sonya Massey last year in her Springfield home. Deckmurray said Grayson made ...