County officials in Springfield, Illinois, have agreed to pay $10 million to the family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman shot and killed in her home last summer by a sheriff's deputy responding to her call for help.

The Sangamon County Board unanimously agreed to a $10 million out-of-court mediated settlement with the estate of Sonya Massey. Massey was fatally shot in her home by a Sangamon County Sheriff's deputy after she called 911 to report a possible intruder to her home in an unincorporated neighborhood of Springfield,

County officials in Springfield, Illinois, have agreed to pay the family of Sonya Massey, who was shot and killed in her home last summer by a sheriff’s deputy responding to her call for help.

Massey, 36, was killed in her Springfield, Illinois, home in July by then-Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson.