Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Daytona Beach Police Department / Fresh Take Florida Othal Wallace, 32, is seen in a screenshot from the police body camera of Daytona Beach police officer Jason Raynor on June 23, 2021. Wallace was convicted of manslaughter for shooting and killing Raynor and is serving a 30-year sentence in state prison. The Legislature on Wednesday, March 11, 2026, passed a bill that would mandate life in prison without parole for anyone convicted of manslaughter of a law enforcement officer. Othal Wallace was in the parking lot of his girlfriend’s apartment complex, one foot out the car door, when Daytona Beach Police Officer Jason Raynor approached him. “Do you live here?” Raynor asked as Wallace stood up out of the car. Raynor put a hand on his shoulder. There were some further exchanges then a scuffle. Raynor fell back. Wallace was driven away to Georgia, where he hid from police in a treehouse. That was in June 2021. Just over two months later, Wallace was in a Clay County courthouse facing charges of first-degree murder of a police officer with a firearm. The jury could have considered the death penalty, but it found Wallace guilty of a lesser charge: mansla
