(CNN) � Officials in Sangamon County, Illinois, have agreed to a $10 million settlement with the family of –� a Black woman who was shot and killed by law enforcement in her home last year.
The agreement was reached last week after mediation between lawyers representing both parties, according to a posted by the Sangamon County Board.
The settlement was unanimously approved by the county board Tuesday evening.
Massey, a 36-year-old mother of two, was killed July 6 after two Sangamon County sheriff’s deputies responded to her 911 call about a possible prowler at her home. She was shot and killed following a dispute with one of the responding deputies involving a pot of boiling water in her kitchen, showed.
Massey’s family has said she struggled with mental health issues, and dispatch records showed the sheriff’s department had been told she was experiencing a mental health crisis.
One of the deputies, Sean Grayson, was fired and remains jailed on a first-degree murder charge. He has not guilty.
Massey’s death has led to , which would set up a national database for tracking officers� disciplinary issues or criminal offenses. Grayson’s in policing spanned six agencies in four years.
Last month, the US Department of Justice with the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office in response to an inquiry into violations of federal anti-discrimination law in Massey’s shooting death. The deal would involve a series of remedies, including more training and use-of-force data reporting, so that policing activities would be carried out in a �
CNN’s Taylor Romine contributed to this report.
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