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

She was shot three times during a confrontation with an officer. Sean Grayson, who is white, was fired. He is charged with murder and other crimes and has pleaded not guilty. The Justice Department wants to know if the sheriff's office has strategies when ...

The Justice Department is opening a civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of an Illinois woman inside her own home by a sheriff's deputy. Sonya Massey, 36, was killed by former Sangamon County deputy Sean Grayson in July amid an exchange over a pot of boiling water.

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 Justice Department notified Sangamon County, Ill., that it had opened a civil rights investigation after reports about the shooting raised “serious concerns.”

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

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

Sonya Massey was shot and killed while deputies responded to her call about a possible prowler outside her home in July.

The Justice Department wants to know if the sheriff's office has strategies when responding to people in "behavioral health crises," among many other requests.