Florida film crew attack suspect faces new murder charges

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — A 19-year-old Florida man is currently facing three first-degree murder charges related to last week’s shooting that killed a television news reporter, a 9-year-old girl and a 38-year-old man. . -year-old woman, sheriff’s officials said Tuesday.

Orange County sheriff’s officials issued an arrest warrant Tuesday morning that included two new murder charges against Keith Melvin Moses in an attack in the Orlando area last Wednesday.

Investigators said Moses fatally shot Natasha Augustin seconds after the car she was traveling in stopped to offer him a lift. A witness in the car described Moses as having “strange behavior” and sweating before the shooting.

Moses ran away after the shooting and returned to the scene hours later while a film crew worked on a report on the shooting, authorities said.

According to investigators, Moses first entered a nearby house, where he shot Tionne Major, a young gymnast, and her mother. The mother told investigators she was woken up by her daughter screaming “He shot me” as she ran and jumped on her bed, the warrant says. According to her, the man shot her in the arm. She told investigators that she barricaded herself with her daughter in the master bedroom before helpers arrived.

She said that T’Yonna described the suspect and said he entered the house through the back door, according to the warrant. The mother said that she usually kept the doors locked, but sometimes left them unlocked after she let the dog out.

T’Yonna died in the hospital shortly after the shooting.

After leaving the major’s home, the suspect approached a car belonging to a Spectrum News 13 film crew, where he fatally shot reporter Dylan Lyons and critically wounded video journalist Jesse Walden.

MPs responded to the scene after 911 calls were received from both locations.

Investigators spoke to a reporter and videographer for WFTV, another news station that covered the story of the original murder.

They told the police that the man was walking towards them with a gun and they were able to film him as he left the scene. They called 911 and then went to a Spectrum News 13 car, where they saw that Lyons and Walden had been shot, the warrant says.

The deputies found Moses near the area within minutes. They said he was sweating as he walked towards them. In his pants, they found a .40 Glock pistol, which they noted was still hot to the touch, meaning it had been fired recently.

The warrant stated that the witness was able to identify Moses from a photographic sequence.

The warrant noted that the pistol’s bolt was in the locked position with the magazine still inserted, consistent with the firearm being fired “until it ran out of ammunition and the bolt locked from behind”.

Moses was taken to the hospital, where he was examined, but the warrant stated that he did not interact with aides or hospital staff, but made facial expressions such as smiling. At times, he “made hand symbols of the weapon by pointing the gun at his head,” the warrant says.

Once at the sheriff’s office, he continued to refuse to talk to investigators, pretending to be asleep. He tried to leave the interrogation room twice, and when the police grabbed his arms and tried to subdue him after he left the room, he continuously shouted, “I can’t breathe.”

The Orange and Osceola Counties Public Defender’s Office represents Moses and declined to comment. Moses waived the right to appear in court during the first hearing on Tuesday, according to a spokesman for the Orange County Jail.

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