A shocking police killing the world will know

Sonya Massey, Springfield, Ill., July 6, 2024.

The rumor was that a white man had shot at police from a rundown house near the corner of 15th and Ash on Springfield’s east side but had somehow survived and was taken away in handcuffs.

The yellow crime scene placards were on the ground when I walked down the broken sidewalk toward police tape yesterday afternoon and saw the investigators looking at th…