Police: Shootings leave woman, child and reporter dead

A man riding in a car with his cousin shot and killed another passenger then returned to the same neighborhood near Orlando hours later and shot four more people, killing a journalist covering the original shooting and a 9-year-old girl, Florida police and witnesses said.

Orange County Sheriff John Mina characterized the shootings Wednesday as random acts of violence. Mina said during a news conference that 19-year-old Keith Melvin Moses has been arrested and charged with firstdegree murder in the initial shooting that killed Nathacha Augustin, 38, and that “numerous more charges” would follow.

Spectrum News 13 identified the slain reporter as Dylan Lyons. Photographer Jesse Walden was also wounded.

The two were in an unmarked news vehicle on Wednesday covering the first homicide when a man approached and shot them, Mina said. The man then went to a nearby home where he fatally shot T’yonna

Major and critically wounded the girl’s mother.

Mina said Thursday that investigators do not know the motive for any of the shootings.

The sheriff said when deputies arrested Moses they seized a Glock semiautomatic weapon.

Body camera footage released by the sheriff ’s office shows Moses apparently resisting arrest. Moses complained he was hurt and was taken to a hospital where he attacked medical staff, Mina said. He has since refused to speak with detectives.

A man who called 911 after Augustin was shot told investigators that he was driving around smoking cannabis with her when he spotted Moses walking along a road. He said Moses “seemed down” so he offered him a ride. Moses climbed into the back seat, behind Augustin, and about 30 seconds later the driver said he “heard a loud bang” and saw blood on Augustin’s face.

He said he stopped and Moses fled. The driver called 911.

Mina said Thursday the driver and Moses are cousins.