Dylan Lyons was only doing his job Wednesday afternoon. Reporting from the scene of a deadly shooting, the 24-year-old journalist for Spectrum News 13 in Orlando, Florida, was working to gather the facts about a tragedy in order to inform his community.
It was not an especially perilous assignment, though reporters can find themselves in risky places when covering a story. That changed when, according to authorities, the suspected assailant returned to the scene and opened fire again.
Lyons and a 9-year-old girl were killed. Another News 13 staffer, photojournalist Jesse Walden, was critically injured but is expected to survive.
