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A judge sentenced Othal Wallace to 30 years in prison – the maximum penalty for his charge of manslaughter with a firearm – for killing a Daytona Beach police officer Friday afternoon.

Othal Wallace is set to learn his fate.

On Sept. 16, Othal Wallace was found guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter by a Clay County jury in Officer Jason Raynor's killing.

The Florida State Attorney’s Office announced on Friday that Othal Wallace was sentenced to a maximum 30 years in prison for the shooting death of Daytona Beach Police Officer Jason Raynor.

Othal Wallace, who shot and killed a Daytona Beach police officer, will spend the next 30 years in prison, after a judge handed down a sentence Friday. According to WKMG in Orlando, Wallace was on trial for first-degree murder, but was convicted last month of a lesser charge.

On Friday, on the day his killer was sentenced to 30 years in prison, we heard from Daytona Beach Officer Jason Raynor’s family for the first time since he was shot more than two years ago.

The judge had strong words for Wallace during the sentencing, saying he killed Jason Raynor because he was a police officer.

Othal Wallace faces between 10.5 and 30 years in prison in officer Jason Raynor's death. His attorneys are arguing for even less time.

Othal Wallace shot Daytona Beach police officer Jason Raynor on June 23, 2021. Raynor died 55 days later at Halifax Health Medical Center.

Assistant State Attorney Jason Lewis is a ferocious, annihilating prosecutor, as genial outside the courtroom as he is fearsome inside it.