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Springfield, IL (CAPITOL CITY NOW) – After enduring perhaps the most difficult day of testimony in the Sean Grayson trial, Sonya Massey’s cousin, Sontae, attended the final meeting of the Massey Commission Monday night.
“I am humbly asking everyone in here to keep this thing going,” said Sontae Massey. “My family is very grateful for everyone coming out. We want to extend this. We want to keep this thing going. That is per Donna Massey today.”
Donna Massey is Sonya’s mother.
The commission passed 27 recommendations, including expanding community mental health resources and bringing up Sangamon County deputies’ pay closer to that of Springfield and state police.
Citizen Ken Pacha anticipated – he hopes – a guilty verdict in the trial, about 75 miles to the north.
“That doesn’t mean it’s over,” he said. “It means we convicted the person that brought us all here. But that doesn’t stop the work. That doesn’t mean the problem is fixed. Hopefully these recommendations, these calls to action, do work.
There is an opportunity for a plaque to go into the new transportation hub honoring Sonya Massey.”
CLICK HERE to read the Massey Commission’s Final Calls to Action (PDF document).
