Orlando shooting suspect Keith Melvin Moses charged for deaths of TV reporter and child

Two more murder charges have been filed against Keith Melvin Moses, the Florida suspect accused of killing three people, including a TV reporter covering the first of the fatal shootings, officials said Tuesday.

Moses is now charged with three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the Orlando shootings that also left a woman and a 9-year-old girl dead last week, according to a warrant released by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

The 19-year-old Moses allegedly shot and killed Nathacha Augustin, 38, last Wednesday after being offered a ride in the car she was in. He fled, then returned to the area and fatally shot the child, identified as T’yonna Major, and wounded her mother at a nearby home, investigators say.

Moses is accused of then opening fire at two Spectrum News 13 journalists covering the initial shooting, killing reporter Dylan Lyons and wounding photographer Jesse Walden. Lyons and Walden were inside an unmarked news vehicle at the time, officials said.

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Moses was originally charged with first-degree murder last week for the shooting that killed Augustin, with Orange County Sheriff John Mina saying he expected there to be “numerous more charges.”

The suspect was arrested near the scene of the shootings. Officials sat they recovered a Glock semiautomatic weapon. The attacks appeared to be random and unrelated to Moses’ gang connections, Mina said last week.

The suspect allegedly declined to speak with investigators. The warrant claims Moses also didn’t speak with employees at the hospital he was taken to after his arrest but “made hand symbols of guns as he pointed the gun at his head.”

Moses is being represented by the Office of the Public Defender for Orange and Osceola counties, which declined to comment.

Speaking from a hospital bed last week, Walden told his former TV employer, New Mexico’s KOB, that his slain colleague was a hard worker and a “sweet guy.”

“Dylan was a reporter I worked with every day,” Walden said of Lyons, who was 24. “We were best friends. … It’s so unfair that it happened to Dylan.”

With News Wire Services