{"id":203970,"date":"2025-07-30T22:49:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/203970\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T22:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:49:23","slug":"man-convicted-of-killing-former-orlando-magic-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/203970\/","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted of killing former Orlando Magic player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/news\/local\/orange-county\/trial-man-accused-killing-former-magic-player-begins\/OH64T3XVOBGXNNGA3Q6GTD2XLM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:three-day trial;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">three-day trial<\/a>, Lawrence Dority has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the killing of Adreian Payne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Judge Greg Tynan set the sentencing for Aug. 29. Dority will remain in the county jail until then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dority shot Payne outside a home on Egret Shores Drive in May 2022. He was 31 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:felt threatened;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">felt threatened<\/a> by the former Orlando Magic player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a three-day trial, Lawrence Dority has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the killing of Adreian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[35753,7,36138,35302,48,6,47,76,3883],"class_list":{"0":"post-203970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-adreian-payne","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-greg-tynan","11":"tag-lawrence-dority","12":"tag-magic","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-orlando","15":"tag-orlando-magic","16":"tag-orlandomagic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114944630429762733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203970","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=203970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}