The US Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation of Illinois’ Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office four months after a deputy fatally shot Sonya Massey while responding to her call about a possible prowler outside the 36-year-old Black woman’s home.

The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the killing of Sonya Massey, a Black woman shot by a white police officer in July after calling to report a prowler outside her home. In a letter to Illinois’ Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office,

The government made a list of demands in dozens of categories in a letter Thursday to the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office.

Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman, was killed in July when deputies responded to a call about a possible prowler at her home in Springfield, Illinois. She was shot three times during a confrontation with an officer. Sean Grayson, who is white ...

The U.S. Justice department has ordered that the records of Sonya Massey's killing be turned over by an Illinois sheriff's office.

Justice Department investigates shooting of Sonya Massey by sheriff's deputy. Demands records on treatment of Black residents and behavioral disabilities.

The U.S. Justice Department is demanding records related to the shooting of an Illinois woman in her Springfield home.