{"id":168915,"date":"2026-04-17T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168915\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:02:09","slug":"del-man-who-fatally-shot-north-philly-security-guard-sentenced-to-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168915\/","title":{"rendered":"Del. man who fatally shot North Philly security guard sentenced to decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The Delaware man who shot and killed a North Philadelphia security guard nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/wayne-dorylis-charges-upheld-nassir-day-shooting-logan\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">five years ago inside a social services center<\/a> in the city\u2019s Logan neighborhood has been sentenced to decades in prison. <\/p>\n<p>Following an emotional testimony on Friday from the family of Nassir Day, his admitted killer Wayne Dorylis threw a tantrum in court, blaming the shooting and everything that happened on the courts and \u201cthe system,\u201d cursing at the judge, prosecutors and even his own defense attorneys.<\/p>\n<p>Day, 26, was working as a security guard inside the Pathways to Housing building along Old York Road on Oct. 1, 2021, when Dorylis walked in wearing homemade pipe guns. Day tried to stop him, but was killed.<\/p>\n<p>Day\u2019s family told the judge about how warm-hearted he was \u2014 always willing to lend a helping hand \u2014 and how excited he was about becoming a dad. He loved his family, playing football and wanted to maybe become a police officer. His son was born just months after his death. <\/p>\n<p>Dorylis, 64, showed no remorse to Day\u2019s family throughout the hearing and instead spouted expletives.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Charles Ehrlich gave him leeway for a bit, then firmly admonished him for his behavior, calling letters he wrote and posts he made about the shooting \u201cvile and disgusting,\u201d and saying he\u2019s an \u201cextreme danger to society.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Dorylism, who was deemed mentally competent, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, weapons and terroristic threat charges.<\/p>\n<p>Ehrlich sentenced him to 25 to 52 years in prison, and said that this incident was a \u201cmass shooting in the making\u201d and that it was for \u201cbut the grace of God\u201d that more people weren\u2019t killed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The Delaware man who shot and killed a North Philadelphia security guard nearly five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,783,76076,69,71,70,76075],"class_list":["post-168915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime","tag-murder","tag-nassir-day","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-wayne-dorylis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}