{"id":41795,"date":"2026-07-06T07:05:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=41795"},"modified":"2026-07-06T07:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:05:39","slug":"former-sangamon-county-deputy-sean-grayson-seeks-medical-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/41795-former-sangamon-county-deputy-sean-grayson-seeks-medical-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Sangamon County Deputy Sean Grayson Seeks Medical Release"},"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><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grayson has served less than six months of a 20-year sentence for the murder of Sonya Massey<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Article Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grayson is seeking release from prison under Illinois\u2019 Joe Coleman Act.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2023 that has now spread to his liver and lungs.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A jury convicted Grayson of second-degree murder for the shooting death of Sonya Massey in July 2024.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By\u00a0BETH HUNDSDORFER<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u202f<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u202f<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/outlook.office.com\/mail\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bhundsdorfer@capitolnewsillinois.com<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u202f<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Less than six months into his 20-year prison sentence, the former sheriff\u2019s deputy convicted of second-degree murder for the fatal shooting of an unarmed Sangamon County woman is asking the state to release him from prison on medical grounds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sean Grayson, 32, filed for release under the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/prb.illinois.gov\/medical-release-joe-coleman-act.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joe Coleman Act<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> last month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the act, a person in custody who is terminally ill or is medically incapacitated could be considered eligible. Medically incapacitated is defined as having a medical condition that prevents them from completing daily living activity behind bars without assistance and will likely not improve in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doctors diagnosed Grayson with Stage 3 colon cancer in 2023, his attorney Mark Wykoff told the judge at his sentencing in January but added that the cancer had progressed to Stage 4 and spread to his liver and lungs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At his trial last October, Grayson appeared to have lost between 40 and 50 pounds from the time of the shooting and appeared gaunt. This is a much different Grayson than the one that appeared at Sonya Massey\u2019s door almost two years ago on July 6, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grayson, then 6-foot-4 and weighing 225 pounds, answered a call to Massey\u2019s home after she called 911 to report a prowler outside her home.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=rQx7SVYrSVA&amp;feature=youtu.be\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">video released<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> after the shooting depicted Grayson and his partner clearing the outside of the house, finding no prowler, and entering Massey\u2019s home to question her further. During that exchange and under Grayson\u2019s direction, Massey went to the stove to remove a pot of boiling water. As Massey did so she said, \u201cI rebuke you in the name of Jesus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grayson responded, \u201cI\u2019ll f\u2014ing shoot you right in the f\u2014ing face\u201d and drew his gun. Seconds later, Grayson fired three times, fatally wounding Massey with one shot in the head.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe\u2019s a killer. I apologize that he must suffer, but he has to pay for what he did,\u201d said Sontae Massey, Sonya Massey\u2019s cousin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grayson was indicted on multiple counts of first-degree murder. He later was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At his sentencing hearing three months later, Wykoff cited Grayson\u2019s worsening medical reason in his plea for leniency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The decision to release Grayson will be made by the Prisoner Review Board. The PRB will review a medical evaluation from the Illinois Department of Corrections, identifying the diagnosis, life expectancy, activities of daily living that require assistance, and the level of medical care required by the incarcerated person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A three-member panel will make a decision within 90 days of receiving the application.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The decision is at the sole discretion of the Prisoner Review Board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the statute, the PRB can consider the diagnosis and likelihood of recovery, the potential cost of healthcare if there is continued incarceration, the impact that may have on the provision of medical care throughout IDOC, the present likelihood of and ability to pose a danger, and victim statements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The PRB can also weigh whether the person\u2019s condition was explicitly disclosed to the original sentencing judge and taken into account at the time of sentencing, as it was in Grayson\u2019s case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the factors that isn\u2019t specifically mentioned in the review process but often considered is the length of the sentence a person has served before making the application.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Here\u2019s how the act came about<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The act, which was approved by the Illinois legislature and became law in 2022, is named for 82-year-old Joe Coleman, a decorated Army veteran and incarcerated father who died of prostate cancer in prison. The law was created so that dying and severely incapacitated individuals do not have to die behind bars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are approximately 30,000 incarcerated people in Illinois. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/idoc.illinois.gov\/content\/dam\/soi\/en\/web\/idoc\/reportsandstatistics\/documents\/other-reports\/joecoleman\/CY24-Joe-Coleman-Act-Annual-Report.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A total of 34 were approved<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for compassionate medical release in 2024, according to report by IDOC. Most were released to private residences; others went to nursing homes, transitional housing or rehabilitation centers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But eight who applied were not released because they failed to find an approved living site.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number of compassionate medical releases approved warrants a call for more transparency from the Prisoner Review Board, according to Jennifer Vollen-Katz, the\u00a0executive director of the correctional watchdog John Howard Association of Illinois.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That transparency could result in changes in IDOC policy that would better serve the people in custody, especially the sick and elderly, shifting resources from security to providing medical care at designated facilities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf the vast majority of people in custody in this facility are incapacitated in some way, shape, or form, it is silly to continue paying security costs for people that don&#8217;t require that kind of security for any reason, right?\u201d Vollen-Katz said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ben Crump, a nationally renowned civil rights attorney who represented Massey\u2019s family in a successful civil claim, urged the PRB to deny the petition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Her family remains in deep grief from the trauma and loss. And importantly, the community deserves justice to be upheld, and that Sean Grayson needs to be held fully accountable for his actions,\u201d Crump said in a statement to the media Thursday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grayson\u2019s hearing before the PRB is scheduled for July 31.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government coverage to hundreds of news outlets statewide. It is funded primarily by the Illinois Press Foundation and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grayson has served less than six months of a 20-year sentence for the murder of Sonya Massey\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Article Summary\u00a0 Grayson is seeking release from prison under Illinois\u2019 Joe Coleman Act. 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