Dylan Lyons has been recognized as the Spectrum News 13 reporter who was murdered yesterday whereas reporting on the scene of a murder. He was 24.
Spectrum News 13 photojournalist Jesse Walden was additionally critically injured.
Orange County Sheriff John Mina stated a 9-year-old lady was additionally killed in a separate, however associated, random taking pictures.
Lyons was born and raised in Philadelphia and graduated from University of Central Florida.
On Twitter, Casey Lynn, recognized by NBC News as as Lyons’ fiancee wrote, “The love of my life was murdered. I will never be the same person ever again. Please help my family and I during this time.”
“He took his job very seriously. He loved his career. He loved what he did,” stated Spectrum Sports 360 reporter Josh Miller. “He loved the community, telling the stories of people, reporting on the news, and he was just passionate about what he did.”
The station said Lyons was a “motivated and talented professional who was living his dream in Orlando, Dylan Lyons will not be forgotten.”
He joined Spectrum News 13 as a multimedia journalist in July 2022.
Both Lyons and Walden had been overlaying a earlier murder in Pine Hills, simply outdoors Orlando, at round 4 p.m. when, based on Sheriff Mina, Keith Melvin Moses, the suspect within the lady’s killing, returned to the scene and opened hearth on the 2 whereas they had been in or close to a automobile.
“The amount of people that will miss him, I’m sure, I can’t even come to fathom how many,” Miller stated.
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