A journalist, a 9-year-old girl and a woman were fatally shot Wednesday in a string of shootings that left two others injured in the Orlando area. A suspect has been arrested.
Authorities on Thursday morning identified the victims as T’yonna Major, 9, journalist Dylan Lyons, 24, and Nathacha Augustin, 38, according to a tweet from the Orange County Sherriff’s Office on Thursday.
The girl’s mother and a photojournalist also were injured in the shooting in Pine Hills, a subdivision just northwest of Orlando, Florida.
Lyons worked as a reporter for Spectrum News 13. Lyons was killed after a suspect in an earlier shooting returned to the scene of the crime and opened fire on him and photojournalist Jesse Walden. Walden was critically injured, according to Spectrum News 13.
Family members and colleagues at the Orlando-based outlet remembered Lyons as a passionate journalist who served his community.
“He took his job very seriously. He loved his career. He loved what he did,” said Josh Miller, a Spectrum Sports 360 reporter and friend, in an obituary published by the news outlet. “He loved the community, telling the stories of people, reporting on the news, and he was just passionate about what he did.”