Orlando shooting

Spectrum News 13 confirmed that 24-year-old reporter Dylan Lyons was killed while covering a shooting on Wednesday, along with a 9-year-old girl.

"I need you to know we care and appreciate the hard work you do and the sacrifices you make. "We call on those who use hateful rhetoric against journalists online to carefully consider the consequences of their actions." "[Spectrum News 13] and all news crews you are in my heart tonight," he wrote. We go home at night afraid — that something like this will occur — and that is what happened here." "To have your life end on the job, senselessly nonetheless ... There are other media people who are kind of corralled together and standing in solidarity tonight as one of our own has just passed." His friend Josh Miller, a Spectrum Sports 360 reporter, told the outlet that Lyons loved his career and took it very seriously. Authorities have yet to determine a motive and say it's not clear whether he knew Lyons and Walden were members of the media because their vehicle was not clearly marked as a typical news van. His first job was working as a reporter and anchor for WCJB TV20, an ABC affiliate in Gainesville. Dylan Lyons was Just six months on the job. He then walked to a nearby home and shot a woman and her 9-year-old daughter, who also died. The day ended with two others dead and two critically injured.

Keith Melvin Moses, 19, has been arrested in connection with the shootings, Orange County Sheriff John Mina said in a news conference. keith-melvin-moses-keith- ...

But lots of procedures and healing to come," Angel said. "It is unclear why the suspect entered that home," Mina said. Moses allegedly shot and killed a woman in the same area on Wednesday morning, Mina said, and police were called later in the day to two additional shootings near the scene. "They have been able to speak with investigators and colleagues. Authorities also discovered a woman and her 9-year-old daughter inside a nearby home who had been shot. Mina said the deadly rampage began at 11 a.m.

A suspect was taken into custody after an Orlando journalist and 9-year-old child were killed and two others were shot in Pine Hills Wednesday afternoon.

The suspect killed a woman near Orlando on Wednesday morning, then returned later in the day and killed a 9-year-old girl and a journalist who was covering ...

“We urge all reporters in the field to take extra precaution and redouble efforts to work safely.” Moses was taken to a hospital, where Sheriff Mina said he fought with hospital staff and was restrained, before being transported to the Sheriff’s Office. Jesse Walden, the News 13 photographer who was shot, remains hospitalized but is speaking to detectives, Sheriff Mina said. It is unclear whether the gunman knew that the reporter and photographer in the vehicle were journalists. He then had to be “subdued” after becoming “physical” with detectives, Sheriff Mina said. Moses returned to the site and shot two Spectrum News 13 journalists who were in a vehicle near the homicide scene, Sheriff Mina said. He said they found a Glock 40 handgun that was “still hot to the touch” in the suspect’s pants. Moses, who was “uncooperative,” the sheriff said. as she was in the car with the suspect’s cousin, Sheriff Mina said, adding that it was unclear whether the suspect knew the victim personally. Moses had walked into a brown house nearby and shot the 9-year-old girl and her mother, he said. In the first shooting on Wednesday, the suspect fatally shot Ms. Sheriff Mina emphasized that officials did not yet know the suspect’s motive for shooting five people or the nature of his connections to them.

Keith Moses, 19, is believed to have been the gunman involved in all of the shootings.

A second news crew member with Spectrum News 13 in Orlando was also shot and is in critical condition.

when Augustin was shot on Hialeah Drive in Pine Hills, and died at the scene. "He is being formally charged in the murder from this morning and we expect additional charges for the shooting of the four people this afternoon." [reporter Dylan Lyons, a Philadelphia native,](https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2023/02/23/remembering-dylan-lyons?cid=id-app15_m-share_s-web_cmp-app_launch_august2020_c-producer_posts_po-organic) was shot on Wednesday afternoon at the scene of a shooting in Pine Hills, Florida. Spectrum News remembers our fallen colleague," the news station tweeted on Thursday. He joined the news station in July 2022. The little girl and Augustin died from their injuries.

A gunman in central Florida killed a woman Wednesday, returned to the scene and killed a TV journalist covering that death, and then fatally shot a ...

“We are deeply saddened by the loss of our colleague and the other lives senselessly taken today,” the statement reads. He called 911 and “Keith (Moses) left the scene running,” according to the affidavit. “There are other media people who are corralled together and standing in solidarity tonight as one of our own has passed.” rushed to the aid of our colleagues, and we want them to know how much we appreciate them,” anchor Tammie Fields said. Less than a minute later, the cousin said he “heard a loud bang,” the affidavit said. Both were taken to a hospital, where the child died and the mother was in critical condition Wednesday evening, authorities said. “We have learned that a fellow reporter has died while covering a shooting.” Her colleagues had left the crime scene on Hialeah Street moments before the shooting, according to the station. Moses was in the car after he was picked up by a cousin who offered him a ride late Wednesday night, according to an affidavit. He told police they drove around “smoking cannabis for about 30 minutes when he saw Keith” walking on the road. The cousin told detectives that “Keith ‘seemed down’ and offered him a ‘ride,’” according to the affidavit. Why he did this,” Mina said.

"He had a very strong sense of justice. He would really want everyone to follow the rules when it came to people with power," Jesse Walden said.

The dramatic bodycam footage shows Orange County Sheriff's Office deputies arresting 19-year-old Keith Melvin Moses at gunpoint Wednesday ...

Moses climbed into the backseat, behind Augustin, and about 30 seconds later the driver said he “heard a loud bang" and saw blood on Augustin’s face. He said Moses is a known gang member but that the shootings didn't appear to be gang-related. “He loved the community, telling the stories of people, reporting on the news, and he was just passionate about what he did.” Worrell said she was prohibited by Florida law from discussing any juvenile charges Moses might have faced. He is also survived by his parents and fiancée. The two were in an unmarked news vehicle on Wednesday afternoon covering the first homicide when a man approached and shot them, Mina said. He loved what he did,” said Spectrum Sports 360 reporter and friend Josh Miller. The man then went to a nearby home where he fatally shot T’yonna Major and critically wounded the girl's mother. Before joining Spectrum News, he worked for a station in Gainesville. Mina said Walden has been talking to investigators while being treated at a hospital. and "I can't breathe!" and "Let me go!"

The surviving photojournalist says he was confused when he learned Moses was targeting him. 

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A family friend describes T'Yonna as a light to the people who knew her, a great reader and gymnast.

"He had a very strong sense of justice. He would really want everyone to follow the rules when it came to people with power," Jesse Walden said.