Sean Grayson, the former Illinois sheriff's deputy charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey, pleaded guilty twice to DUI. NBC News' Janelle Griffith reports Grayson also disclosed a history of alcohol abuse on a job application.
The fired deputy charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey in Illinois had been reprimanded in a previous job over inaccuracies in his police reports, failure to follow orders from a senior leader and a perceived lack of integrity, according to a disciplinary file. The admonishments are in Sean Grayson’s personnel file from the Logan County, Illinois, Sheriff’s Office, where he worked for about a year before he joined the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office.
His attorney, Dan Fultz, declined to comment. The fatal shooting has raised questions about Grayson’s job performance before he arrived at Sangamon County in May 2023. Illinois law enforcement records show that he moved among six law enforcement agencies in central Illinois in four years, with short stints as a part-time officer at three small police departments. He worked full time at one police department and two sheriff’s offices, state records show.
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