By Bella May
In an outpouring of grief, community members filled the New Mount Pilgrim Church in Chicago Tuesday night to call for justice for Sonya Massey, a Black woman killed by a sheriff’s deputy in her Springfield home after calling 911 for help .
The crowd chanted “No justice, no peace,” and “What do we want? Justice,” led by the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Massey family attorney Ben Crump.
Massey was shot in the head July 6 by Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson. Public outrage erupted after bodycam video of the shooting was released July 22.
Massey’s son Malachi recalled how he received a call from the hospital at 5 a.m. telling him his mother had been shot. When he asked who shot her, he received no reply.
Sharpton called for a new law in Illinois named for Sonya Massey.
More rallies and press briefings are planned, organizers said, hoping to gain support for change.
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