WESH 2 / Spectrum News 13
A Florida TV journalist broke down in tears stay on digicam whereas overlaying a mass taking pictures that claimed the lifetime of considered one of her colleagues.
WESH correspondent Luana Munoz was doing a stay shot outdoors an Orlando hospital Wednesday night time after she had gotten phrase that fellow journalist Dylan Lyons was considered one of 3 victims fatally shot within the savage assaults that left 2 others critically wounded. The surviving victims had been rushed to the hospital.
Munoz opened her report along with her voice cracking and wiping a tear from her eye. She mentioned, “I apologize. This is actually troublesome to cowl. This is each reporter’s completely worst nightmare. We go dwelling at night time afraid that one thing like it will happen and that’s what occurred right here.”
She additionally bought choked up speaking about Lyons’ fiancé, saying that they had embraced earlier as different journalists stood in solidarity with their fallen colleague.
Munoz ended with … “So once more we’re at Orlando Regional Medical Center the place now we have realized that considered one of our personal, a fellow reporter, has died whereas out overlaying a taking pictures. There are members of his household right here alongside along with his fiancée who’re simply extremely distraught tonight.”
Orange County Sheriff John Mina mentioned Keith Melvin Moses started his taking pictures spree late Wednesday morning when he murdered a girl — with whom he was acquainted — inside a automobile after which fled.
Mina mentioned Lyons and a photographer then confirmed up on the scene to cowl the slaying for Spectrum 13 News. While they had been doing their jobs, Moses allegedly returned to the scene and shot the journalists, killing Lyons and critically wounding the photog.
But, Moses wasn’t achieved. He allegedly slipped inside a house close by and shot a mom and her 9-year-old daughter. The mom was critically injured. Her daughter died.
Police flooded the neighborhood and arrested Moses — carrying the obvious homicide weapon — close to the place the shootings occurred. He has been charged with homicide; further costs had been pending. Investigators haven’t decided a motive, however they consider Moses had no connection to the journalists, the mom and her daughter.