Former Michigan State basketball superstar Adreian Payne changed into shot and killed early Monday morning in Orlando, Florida.
A source confirmed Payne’s loss of life to the Free Press on Monday morning.
Around midday, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Florida introduced it and replied to a call at 1:37 a.M. Of a person who had been shot. Payne turned into transported to a nearby health center, where he became said lifelessly.
Deputies arrested a suspect inside the shooting, 29-year-antique Lawrence Dority, at the scene on a warrant for first-degree homicide.
Payne, a 31-year-old local of Dayton, Ohio, played for the Spartans from 2010-14 and earned 2d-group All-Big Ten honors his junior and senior seasons.
Perhaps his biggest legacy came as the 6-foot-10 forward befriended a younger woman from St. Johns stricken with most cancers, Lacey Holsworth, who has become a fixture around the 2013-14 Spartans. Payne held her to help cut down the nets after MSU gained the Big Ten event identify in Indianapolis, and the story of their friendship became a primary country-wide story at some point in the Spartans’ NCAA match run that ended with an Elite Eight loss to Connecticut. She died of headaches from neuroblastoma a touch greater than per week after the season ended, and Payne paid tribute to the eight-year-vintage alongside his teammates in the course of an emotional tribute rite at Breslin Center.
Payne went to the Atlanta Hawks with the 15th pick of the 2014 NBA draft and turned into traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves all through his rookie season. He played 107 NBA video games over three seasons, completing with 5 games in 2017-18 after signing with the Orlando Magic, and averaging four.2 points and 1.8 rebounds in 13.1 minutes in step with recreation.
The Magic released him after his call surfaced in an ESPN file approximately an alleged sexual assault concerning Payne and previous MSU defend Keith Appling for the duration of their freshman year at MSU resurfaced. Prosecutors did now not press fees at the time, and no similarly legal action changed into taken after the January 2018 ESPN story.
Payne then bounced around foreign places, completing the 2018 season with Panathinaikos in Greece after being reduced and then playing in brief in China early in 2018. He returned to Panathinaikos in early 2019 and helped win a Greek Basketball Cup earlier than being launched in March that year.
After spending time in France and Turkey from 2019-21, Payne signed in December with Juventus Utena in Lithuania. He averaged 8.6 points and 4.6 rebounds in seven games before being launched in February.
