JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Duval County jury found Shane Payne Jr. guilty of home invasion robbery and aggravated fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer following a November 2023 incident on Jacksonville\u2019s Westside, State Attorney Melissa Nelson announced.<\/p>\n
Payne subsequently pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a juvenile delinquent found to have committed a felony act. <\/p>\n
Combined, the conviction and plea mean Payne could face up to life in Florida State Prison. Judge Jonathan Sacks will sentence Payne at a later date.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n According to prosecutors, on Nov. 30, 2023, Payne, armed with a handgun and wearing a horror movie villain mask, and an accomplice approached a man exiting his vehicle with a pizza, demanding he leave his keys in the car and stealing cash from him. The pair then forced their way inside the victim\u2019s home and demanded money. The victim\u2019s girlfriend and young child were present and witnessed the robbery. Payne and his accomplice stole the victim\u2019s phone and car before fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n Police tracked the stolen phone to the suspects\u2019 location, triggering a chase that ended when Payne crashed the vehicle and fled on foot. He was apprehended with the assistance of a K-9 unit.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t Payne\u2019s only case \u2014 he also faces two counts of first-degree murder in a separate case stemming from the alleged killings of his father and a friend.<\/p>\n The case was investigated by the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office and prosecuted by Assistant State Attorneys Trey Atkinson and Dan Skinner.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A Duval County jury found Shane Payne Jr. guilty of home invasion robbery and aggravated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,28,348,3981,43407,116,351,118,117,1933,349,126767,350,346,345],"class_list":["post-302047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-guilty","tag-home-invasion-robbery","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-murder","tag-northeast-florida","tag-shane-payne-jr","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}