PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — A jury was seated Monday in the murder trial of an Illinois sheriff’s deputy charged with killing Sonya Massey , a Black woman shot in her home last year after calling police for help.

Opening statements are scheduled for Wednesday in the case against Sean Grayson after a jury of 10 women and five men, including three alternates, was chosen.

Grayson 31, an ex-Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy, responding to a call about a suspected prowler, fired on the 36-year-old Massey in her Springfield home early on July 6, 2024, after confronting her about how she was handling a pan of hot water Grayson had ordered removed from her stove.

Massey’s killing raised new questions about U.S. law enforcement shootings of Black people in their homes and it prompted a change in Ill

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