Orlando City honors Dylan Lyons and Grant Wahl ahead of house reopening

ORLANDO, Florida. – Orlando City SC paid tribute to the slain Central Florida journalist Dylan Lyons and football reporter Grant Wahl ahead of their start of the season and home opening at Exploria Stadium on Saturday.

The team posted a tweet and photo with the caption “Forever with us” and two football jerseys with the names “Lions” and “Val” along with their photos from the press box before the game against the New York Red Bulls.

Lyons, who has worked for Spectrum News 13 since last summer, was one of three people shot dead on Wednesday in Pine Hills. Natacha Augustin, 38, was gunned down in the morning and Lyons was gunned down hours later while covering her murder, authorities said.

According to Orange County Sheriff John Mina, the suspect, 19-year-old Keith Melvin Moses, then shot and killed 9-year-old T’onna Major.

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“Dylan really wanted to be a TV journalist,” News 6 reporter Eric Sandoval said. “He was excited about his future and we were happy for him. When I saw him last year at the awards ceremony (where he won), I gave him a big hug. Dylan was talented. Dylan was electrified. Dylan had a future.”

Wahl, an American journalist who helped fuel the rise of football in the US and covered some of the sport’s biggest stories, died while covering a World Cup match between Argentina and the Netherlands. The autopsy showed that he died from aneurysm of the ascending aorta.

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