Sonya Massey called the Illinois police because she thought someone was trying to break into her house. But her plea for help and protection ended with Sonya losing her life on the kitchen floor. Now her son Malachi Hill, breaks his silence about how he learned that a police officer fatally shot her.
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Sonya’s son Malachi Hill speaks out
Speaking to the press, including Fox Illinois, Malachi said police never contacted him about his mother's fatal shooting. Instead, he received a call from HSHS St. John's Hospital, whose staff told him Sonya Massey had been shot in the eye and the bullet exited her neck.
Sonya Massey's son said the hospital did not tell him WHO did it, but kept repeating that “someone” shot her.
“But they never wanted to tell me who shot my mother. And I think I was the first to find out. I had to tell my grandmother myself. That's all I can say,” Malachi said.
As previously reported, Sonya's father recently expressed similar sentiments to his grandson on “CBS Mornings.” James Wilburn said he was never told that a deputy was involved in the shooting. “We thought she had been killed by the intruder or someone else on the street and they just went in and found her body,” he said. In addition, Wilburn said there is even a story that he inflicted the gunshot wound on himself.
This is what happened to Sonya Massey
As Justin Carter of TSR Investigates previously reported, the 36-year-old died on July 6 in Springfield, Illinois. Bodycam footage showed the moment two police officers arrived at Sonya's home and she invited them into her living room and warned them not to harm her.
After speaking with them in the living room, Sonya went to the kitchen to serve a pot of boiling water. One of the police officers, Officer Sean P. Graysoncaused the mood in the room to escalate when he shouted at Sonya to put down the pot or she would be shot in the face.
Sonya Massey apologized several times, but Grayson pulled the trigger and shot her three times.
About 31 minutes after she called 911 at 12:50 a.m., a bullet struck Massey in the face. At 1:47 a.m., doctors at the hospital pronounced her dead. In bodycam footage released earlier this week, one of the officers can be seen calling Massey a “bitch” who was “crazy.”
Officer Grayson has since been fired from the police force and faces five charges, including three counts of first-degree murder. The 30-year-old has pleaded not guilty, according to CNN.
Watch Justin Carter analyze Sonya's family's fight for justice in the latest episode of TSR Investigates below.
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