KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Florida journalist fatally shot on the job Wednesday has been identified as 24-year-old Dylan Lyons.
The station posted an article remembering him on its home page early Thursday morning.
Lyons was born and raised in Philadelphia before he enrolled at the University of Central Florida.
After graduation, he moved to Gainesville to take a job anchoring and reporting the news.
In July 2022, he joined Spectrum News 13 in Orlando.
Lyons was shot and killed Wednesday at the scene of a homicide investigation in Pine Hills, Florida.
Police say he was there covering a 20-year-old woman found dead around 11:17 a.m. EST on Feb. 22.
A 9-year-old girl was killed in a separate but related shooting, per authorities.
Spectrum News 13 reports photojournalist Jesse Walden was also critically injured.
Police arrested 19-year-old Keith Melvin Moses in connection with the case.
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