ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — The families of the TV reporter and 9-year-old girl who were killed in Pine Hills shootings last week will spoke out for the first time this afternoon.
Attorney Mark NeJame, who is representing the families of both Dylan Lyons and T’Yonna Major, had the families address the media and the public during a news conference at 2 p.m. Thursday.
Lyons and Major both died after deputies say they were shot by Keith Moses, 19, in Pine Hills on Wednesday, Feb. 22. They were two of the five people Moses is accused of shooting that day. Natacha Augustin, 38, also died in the shootings.
See a timeline of events of what happened in Pine Hill that day here.
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Families, communities remember victims after Orange County mass shooting T’Yonna Major, 9, Spectrum News 13 reporter Dylan Lyons, 24, and Nathacha Augustin died in a mass shooting Wednesday. (WFTV/WFTV)
Dylan Lyons and T'Yonna Major Deputies say an Orange County man shot five people in Pine Hills on Wednesday, killing three of them, including a 9-year-old girl and a TV news reporter. (Mynews13.com/GoFundMe)
Orange County shooting: What we know about the victims Dylan Lyons, 24, was identified as one of the five victims in the Pine Hills mass shooting. (WFTV)
Remembering Dylan Lyons Dylan Lyons with the Channel 9 staff. (wftv.com)
Florida TV Crew Attack TV journalist Dylan Lyons, 24, poses for a photo with his girlfriend, left, and mom at the Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists awards ceremony on May 7, 2022 in Orlando, Fla. Lyons, a journalist with Spectrum 13 News in Orlando, was shot and killed Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, while covering a story about a murdered woman. (Jonathan Galen via AP) (Jonathan Galed)
UCF professor shares legacy of reporter killed in Pine Hills mass shooting
Fundraiser created to support family of slain reporter Dylan Lyons
Spectrum News 13 reporter Dylan Lyons Spectrum News 13 in Orlando, Florida, identified Dylan Lyons as the TV journalist who died Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, after he was shot while covering another deadly shooting in Pine Hills. (Mynews13.com via WFTV)
UCF students create memorial to honor slain TV journalist Dylan Lyons
Video: Deputies release minute-by-minute timeline of shootings that killed woman, reporter & girl Orange County deputies released a minute-by-minute timeline of a mass shooting that ended three lives. (WFTV)
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Sarah Wilson joined WFTV Channel 9 in 2018 as a digital producer after working as an award-winning newspaper reporter for nearly a decade in various communities across Central Florida.
