SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- The Sangamon County Board has approved a $10 million settlement for the family of Sonya Massey. Massey was shot and killed in her kitchen by a county sheriff's deputy ...

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Officials in Sangamon County, Illinois, have agreed to a $10 million settlement with the family of Sonya Massey –– a Black woman who was shot and killed by law enforcement in her home last year.

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This story has been updated with new information. County officials in Illinois have agreed to a $10 million settlement to the family of Sonya Massey, a woman fatally shot in her home last year by ...

Family members hug Sonya Massey’s mother, Donna Massey, in Washington, D.C., in September.

Body cam video shows Illinois deputy fatally shooting Sonya Massey Sonya Massey ducked and apologized to an Illinois sheriff’s deputy only seconds before he shot her three times, with one fatal ...

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Sonya Massey’s family has reached a $10 million settlement more than six months after she was shot and killed in her Illinois home by a deputy responding to her call about a possible prowler.