The partner of the sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot a Black woman in her own home testified in an Illinois court. Dawson Farley told the jury that he was afraid of sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson that night, and that he did not feel threatened by Sonya Massey. Grayson faces three counts of first-degree murder for shooting the 36-year-old single mother after he told her to put down a pot of water she was holding.
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