{"id":203507,"date":"2025-07-30T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/203507\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T18:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:06:11","slug":"man-convicted-of-killing-former-orlando-magic-player-wftv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/203507\/","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted of killing former Orlando Magic player \u2013 WFTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 After a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/local\/orange-county\/trial-man-accused-killing-former-magic-player-begins\/OH64T3XVOBGXNNGA3Q6GTD2XLM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/local\/orange-county\/trial-man-accused-killing-former-magic-player-begins\/OH64T3XVOBGXNNGA3Q6GTD2XLM\/\">three-day trial<\/a>, Lawrence Dority has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the killing of Adreian Payne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Judge Greg Tynan set the sentencing for Aug. 29. Dority will remain in the county jail until then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Dority shot Payne outside a home on Egret Shores Drive in May 2022. He was 31 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Dority tried to claim self-defense, saying he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/local\/man-accused-killing-former-orlando-magic-player-make-1st-appearance\/QL7DGTZLUNASXH3DMBTXYTNHQA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/local\/man-accused-killing-former-orlando-magic-player-make-1st-appearance\/QL7DGTZLUNASXH3DMBTXYTNHQA\/\">felt threatened<\/a> by the former Orlando Magic player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753898771_961_APP DOWNLOAD LOCAL_1541693885678.jpg_13622062_ver1.0.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM WFTV CHANNEL 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 After a three-day trial, Lawrence Dority has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[7,35302,48,6,47,76,3883],"class_list":{"0":"post-203507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-lawrence-dority","10":"tag-magic","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-orlando-magic","14":"tag-orlandomagic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114943517586703843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}