"Sonya Massey, 36, was killed early on the morning of 6 July by Sean Grayson, an Illinois sheriff’s deputy, in her home in Springfield, the Illinois state capitol."
"Massey’s death carries on a troubling legacy of racial violence in Springfield: Massey’s family said she is a descendant of William Donnegan, a Black man who was lynched by a white mob but survived during the city’s infamous 1908 race riots that took 17 Black lives over a two-day period in mid-August of that year. As a result of the violence and carnage, a group of white and Black Americans banded together to create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Massey’s family said that the irony of having to reach out to the NAACP for help after her killing is not lost on them."
Sonya's father and mother's brother are gathering funds, as well as cards and letters of encouragement through GoFundMe.
