ORLANDO, FL. (THECOUNT) — Dylan Lyons GoFundMe:
Dylan Lyons has been identified as the Spectrum News 13 reporter shot dead Wednesday while covering an earlier shooting in Orlando, Florida.
Lyons, 24, was fatally shot – and his Photographer Jesse Walden was wounded – in a Wednesday Orlando shooting that also killed a young girl and critically wounded her mother.
Nikki Lyons, Dylan’s sister, took to Facebook posting the following:
My baby brother was murdered last night!!! My baby Dylan Lyons you were the best most amazing uncle to my kids I love you!!!!! I can’t believe I’m typing this I love you dylan my handsome baby brother!!
Keith Moses, 19, has been identified as the shooter. He is accused of killing a woman in the Orlando area before returning to the same neighborhood hours later – shooting four more people, including Lyons and aa 9-year-old child.
A GoFundMe was setup to help family members with expenses:
Via GoFundMe:
hello my name is Rachel lyons I am Dylan lyons big sister I am trying to raise money for my litter brother funeral. He was a reporter for Spectrum news and was ambushed and murdered while covering a story in Orlando florida .He was an acting father to his niece and nephew who he loved so much. He loved his fiancé and and was a devoted son to his mother and father. Dylan would have been 25 years old in March. He was a happy soul and wonderful person in life .my brother was our baby . He was taken too early from us.
The two were in an unmarked news vehicle on Wednesday afternoon covering the first homicide when a man approached and shot them, Orange County Sheriff John Mina said during a news conference. The man then went to a nearby home where he fatally shot a girl and critically wounded her mother.
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