Sean Grayson, officer convicted of murdering Sonya Massey, dies in prison at 32

In the span of two years, the killing of Sonya Massey — a Black woman who called police for help and was shot in her own home — moved through protest, trial, conviction, and now the prison death of the officer responsible. Sean Grayson, convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to twenty years, died at 32 from cancer before that sentence could run its course. The legal chapter has closed, but the human one has not: Massey's family continues to grieve, and the questions her death raised about who is protected when they call for protection remain very much alive in America.