{"id":21875,"date":"2025-10-29T16:40:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=21875"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:41:20","slug":"21875","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/21875-21875\/","title":{"rendered":"Grayson Found Guilty of 2nd Degree Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By DEAN OLSEN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ILLINOIS TIMES<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:dolsen@illinoistimes.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dolsen@illinoistimes.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This story originally ran in the Illinois Times and was republished with permission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Peoria County jury found former Sangamon County sheriff\u2019s deputy Sean Grayson guilty Oct. 28 of second-degree murder, deciding that he mistakenly believed he was justified in shooting and killing Sonya Massey to avoid being scalded by a pot of hot water she had raised over her head. Jurors were chosen from that county because of extensive pretrial publicity in Sangamon County.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The jury took the second-degree murder option rather than convicting Grayson of the first-degree murder charges originally leveled against Grayson after the July 6, 2024, killing of Massey in her Woodside Township home in the \u201cCabbage Patch\u201d neighborhood just south of Springfield\u2019s east side.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sangamon County Circuit Judge Ryan Cadagin gave the nine women and three men of the jury the second-degree option before they began deliberations. Grayson and Sangamon County State\u2019s Attorney John Milhiser both agreed to offer the potential alternative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The jury determined Grayson\u2019s conduct met the legal standard for first-degree murder but that his belief that he was acting in self-defense was a mitigating factor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If convicted of first-degree murder in the case, Grayson could have faced a mandatory prison sentence of 45 years to life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Second-degree murder charges carry a potential prison sentence of four to 20 years, with the possibility of a 50% reduction in time served with good behavior. A second-degree murder conviction also gives a judge Cadagin the option to sentence Grayson to probation and no prison time. Sentencing is set for 9 a.m. Jan. 29 in Sangamon County.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grayson, 31, a Riverton resident who had pleaded not guilty, has been incarcerated and denied pretrial release since his arrest about 10 days after the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grayson, who was hired as a deputy in May 2023, was dispatched to Massey\u2019s home in the \u201cCabbage Patch\u201d neighborhood in unincorporated Sangamon County, just south of Springfield\u2019s east side, after Massey called 911 after suspecting a prowler in the neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The early morning incident on July 6, 2024, ended with Grayson shooting at Massey three times, with one bullet striking her below the left eye and severing her left carotid artery. Grayson pleaded not guilty and contended that he was acting in self-defense when Massey picked up a pot of water that had been boiling on her stove and eventually raised the pot above her head and tried to throw the water at him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Milhiser didn\u2019t dispute that freeze-frame analysis of police-worn camera video showed Massey raising the pot. But he said in his part of the prosecution\u2019s closing argument Oct. 28 that Grayson \u201cdidn\u2019t keep his emotions in check,\u201d disregarded his crisis-intervention training and acted like \u201ca bully\u201d with Massey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Milhiser contended that Massey held up the pot as a shield \u201cto save her life\u201d after Grayson drew his gun, pointed at her and said he would shoot her in the face if she didn\u2019t comply with his order to drop the pot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pot became part of the incident when Grayson and another deputy, Dawson Farley, were talking with Massey and noticed water boiling on her stove and asked her to turn off the burner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grayson testified earlier that he was surprised when Massey, who stood up after sitting on a nearby couch, picked up the pot with oven mitts and walked toward him and placed the pot on a counter near a sink.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Grayson told Massey he backed away to avoid her \u201chot, steaming water,\u201d Massey is heard saying on body-worn police video as saying twice, \u201cI rebuke you in the name of Jesus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grayson testified he interpreted that comment from Massey as a threat. He said he pulled his gun out of its holster, pointed it at Massey and threatened to shoot her in the face. Seeing the weapon, Massey then put her hands in the air and said to Grayson, \u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For an unknown reason, Massey then ducked behind the counter. Grayson testified that with his gun still drawn, he moved closer to Massey to make sure she wasn\u2019t looking for a weapon on the ground and because he wanted to handcuff her to arrest her for what he perceived to be a threat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A fraction of a second after that, Massey stood back up, grasped the pot again, lifted it over her head and was in the middle of a throwing motion when Grayson fired his gun three times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experts on police use of force called by the defense said Massey was the aggressor who forced Grayson to use deadly force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But experts called by the prosecution contradicted this contention. And Milhiser told the jury he was glad bodycam video from Grayson and Farley was able to give a full picture of the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The video, Milhiser said, indicated Grayson disregarded his training on how to deescalate tense situations and handle people such as Massey, who was dealing with mental illness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Defense attorney Dan Fultz asked the jury to trust the videocam footage as well, but to focus on the individual frames that showed Massey raising the pot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fultz said Grayson never changed his story over the past 15 months that he feared for his life when he made the decision to shoot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe believed that that was the only option available to him,\u201d Fultz told the jury. \u201cIt is the perception of the officer that matters. \u2026 As hard as it is to hear, the outcome of this case was driven by Sonya Massey.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fultz told the jury that Farley, who testified earlier in the trial, lied to Illinois State Police when he approached ISP officials several weeks after the incident to \u201cclarify\u201d his story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Farley, who at first told ISP that he, too, feared Massey would harm him with hot water in the pot, later told ISP that he instead feared Grayson because of Grayson\u2019s actions inside Massey\u2019s home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First Assistant State\u2019s Attorney Mary Beth Rodgers said Grayson lied several times on the stand and knew Massey \u201cwasn\u2019t dangerous. \u2026 He knew how to slow things down, but he didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The shooting happened, Rodgers said, \u201cnot because Sonya was in crisis, but because he snapped. \u2026 He could have left the house. He\u2019d like you to believe he was scared.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rodgers said Grayson \u201cprovoked any use of force against himself. Just because he\u2019s wearing a uniform doesn\u2019t mean he gets to use deadly force. \u2026 She\u2019s allowed to defend herself in her kitchen. She\u2019s not the initial aggressor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Milhiser concluded the prosecution\u2019s closing argument by replaying parts of the bodycam footage of the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the video was playing, one female juror began crying, and covering her face with her note pad, after the unredacted video showed Massey being shot and Farley applying pressure to her face with a cloth in an ultimately unsuccessful effort to prevent Massey from bleeding to death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dean Olsen is a senior staff writer for Illinois Times. He can be reached at: dolsen@illinoistimes.com, 217-679-7810 or @DeanOlsenIT.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By DEAN OLSEN ILLINOIS TIMES dolsen@illinoistimes.com &nbsp; Editor&#8217;s note: This story originally ran in the Illinois Times and was republished with permission. &nbsp; A Peoria County jury found former Sangamon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Grayson Found Guilty of 2nd Degree Murder - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/21875-21875\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grayson Found Guilty of 2nd Degree Murder - 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