TV station identifies slain reporter among the 3 killed in a Florida shooting spree

A gunman in central Florida killed a woman Wednesday, returned to the scene and killed a TV journalist covering that death, and then fatally shot a 9-year-old girl nearby before he was arrested, authorities said.

Spectrum News 13 in Orlando identified the slain reporter as 24-year-old Dylan Lyons. One of the station’s photographers, Jesse Walden, was “critically injured” in the shooting, the station said.

Authorities have not publicly identified the girl and woman who were killed in the deadly rampage that spanned three locations.

The suspect, 19-year-old Keith Melvin Moses, has been taken into custody, Orange County Sheriff John Mina said. His arrest ended a spate of violence that stretched several hours in a neighborhood just west of Orlando.

“No one in our community – not a mother, not a 9-year-old, (and) certainly not news professionals – should become the victim of gun violence in our community,” Orange County Sheriff John Mina said.