The verdict against Sean Grayson, 31, arrived on the second day of deliberations. Grayson was charged with first-degree murder but an option for second-degree murder was added to jury instructions before deliberations began.

A downstate jury found Sean Grayson, a former Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy, guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday in the killing last year of Sonya Massey inside her home near Springfield, a c...

The verdict is the culmination of an incident that spurred protests across the country that highlighted the treatment of Black citizens at the hands of law enforcement officers, including a statement...