The discussion was emotional, frank and honest as we heard for the first time from the families of two of the victims in the Pine Hills shooting: 9-year-old T’Yonna Major and Spectrum News 13 reporter Dylan Lyons, who was covering an earlier shooting at the scene.
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
A town hall meeting in Pine Hills Thursday evening echoed the families’ calls for change after the violence.
In the audience was Johnny Brinson, the son of Lt. Debra Clayton, who was shot and killed when she encountered a wanted murder suspect in the parking lot of a Walmart in 2017.
“It doesn’t matter what city you’re from, what district you’re from, we just all need to come together as one and make a difference,” Brinson said. “I feel like as long as we reach out to the youth and provide more programs … we should be better off. That’s what my mom believed in, getting them more involved.”
Video: ‘Forever broken’: Families of Dylan Lyons, T’Yonna Major bond over loss, call for change Two Central Florida families are now connected forever as members of a club no one wants to be in: those who’ve lost loved ones to gun violence. (Ashley Edlund, WFTV.com)
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