‘My soul is gone’: Family members of Central Florida shooting victims share pain of loss

ORLANDO, Florida. Thursday was an emotional day in Orlando when the families of the two shooting victims came together to reflect on the lives of their loved ones who died last week.

The parents of 9-year-old Tionna Major and 24-year-old television journalist Dylan Lyons held a press conference full of tears.

It has been eight days since they were killed in what law enforcement is calling a senseless act of violence.

Both families still mourn their children, who were killed by the same gunman, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

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“My soul is gone. She was my gymnast,” said Tokiyo Major, T’yonna’s father. “That was my #1 friend.”

“She’s just my heart and my angel,” said Brandi Major, T’yenna’s mother. “I will miss her very much.”

Brandi Major was also wounded by a gunman but later released from the hospital.

Investigators said that after suspect Keith Moses killed Tionne, he shot Lyons.

“As a mother, he should have buried me,” Beth Lyons, Dylan’s mother, said Thursday. “I shouldn’t have buried him.”

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Casey Fite, Lyons’ fiancée, said she plans to perform in vitro fertilization to give birth to Lyons’ baby.

“I know he would like me to have our baby,” Feit said. “I’m just completely devastated that he can’t be here because we got so excited.”

A public vigil is planned for the coming weeks.