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“At the end of the day, this defendant went into the home of Sonya Massey when she called for help,” Milhiser told the jury, “and without lawful justification (he) shot and killed (her).”
| In a crowded but airy courtroom 75 miles from where a downstate sheriff’s deputy shot and killed Sonya Massey near Springfield in a
case that stirred national outrage, a prosecutor said Wednesday the deputy shot Massey after he got mad at her while she held a pot of boiling water, while the deputy’s attorney told a jury the fatal shooting was in self-defense. | | | |