A Florida journalist who was fatally shot on the job Wednesday after the suspect of an earlier shooting returned to the scene of the crime has been identified as Dylan Lyons, a reporter with Spectrum News 13.
“Following the shooting death of one of our colleagues and the wounding of another, Spectrum News 13 has now identified the reporter who lost his life as Dylan Lyons,” the outlet, based in Orlando, said Thursday morning.
Lyons was 24, according to a GoFundMe page set up by his family. He had joined Spectrum News 13 as a multimedia journalist in July 2022, according to a bio on the news outlet’s website.
The outlet also identified a photographer critically injured in the shooting as Jesse Walden.
Lyons and Walden had been in Pine Hills, just outside Orlando, at around 4 p.m. to cover the slaying of a woman in her 20s who had been found shot earlier that morning, Sheriff John Mina said on Wednesday.
Keith Melvin Moses, 19, the suspect in the woman’s killing, returned to the scene and opened fire on Lyons and a photographer while the two were in or near a vehicle, Mina said. The sheriff said one of the victims had died, but he did not identify Lyons at the time.
Walden was still in critical condition as of Wednesday night. Greg Angel, a news anchor for Spectrum News 13, said in a Twitter post that evening that the “second colleague injured in the shooting” had been “able to speak with investigators and colleagues” while receiving treatment.
“Great sign. But lots of procedures and healing to come,” he said. Walden’s condition was not immediately clear as of Thursday morning.
Following the attack, Moses walked into a nearby home and shot a woman her 9-year-old daughter, the sheriff said. The girl, who has yet to be identified, died of her injuries. The mother was in critical condition as of Wednesday night. Her condition was not immediately clear Thursday morning.
The suspect was arrested in the area and was charged in the initial slaying, Mina said. He said Moses…
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