PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The Delaware man who shot and killed a North Philadelphia security guard nearly five years ago inside a social services center in the city’s Logan neighborhood has been sentenced to decades in prison.
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 “the system,” cursing at the judge, prosecutors and even his own defense attorneys.
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.
Day’s family told the judge about how warm-hearted he was — always willing to lend a helping hand — 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.
Dorylis, 64, showed no remorse to Day’s family throughout the hearing and instead spouted expletives.
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 “vile and disgusting,” and saying he’s an “extreme danger to society.”
Dorylism, who was deemed mentally competent, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, weapons and terroristic threat charges.
Ehrlich sentenced him to 25 to 52 years in prison, and said that this incident was a “mass shooting in the making” and that it was for “but the grace of God” that more people weren’t killed.
