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A 9-year-old girl and a local TV news reporter were among three people killed and two others wounded in shootings in Orlando, Florida, on Wednesday, authorities and the TV station involved said.
Keith Melvin Moses, 19, has been arrested in connection with the shootings, Orange County Sheriff John Mina said in a news conference.
Moses allegedly shot and killed a woman in the same area on Wednesday morning, Mina said, and police were called later in the day to two additional shootings near the scene. Mina said Moses was formally charged for the murder from the morning and authorities expect additional charges for the four shootings in the afternoon.
At one home, a 9-year-old child and her mother were shot, Mina said, while at another scene nearby, crew members from Spectrum News 13 covering the previous shooting were shot near their vehicle.
The station identified the reporter who lost his life as Dylan Lyons, and said photographer Jesse Walden was critically injured.
Mina said the deadly rampage began at 11 a.m. local time when deputies responded to a shooting and discovered a woman who had been fatally shot. Officials initially said the woman was in her 20s, but later identified her as 38-year-old Nathacha Augustin.
Moses knew that victim, Mina said. Then, shortly after 4 p.m., deputies received another call regarding two additional shootings near one another.
In one location, deputies found a reporter and photographer for Spectrum News 13 — who were on the scene to cover the homicide that had occurred earlier that morning — shot in or near their news vehicle, Mina said.
Mina said it was unclear whether the Spectrum News 13 crew members were targeted, or if the suspect even knew they were with the media.
After being taken to a hospital, one of the News 13 employees died from their wounds, Mina said.
UPDATE::Newly-released bodycam video shows the moment Orange County deputies located Keith Marvin Moses, the man accused of killing 3 people, including a Orlando news reporter, a 9-year-old girl, and a 38-year-old woman. In the video, deputies remark that a gun found in Moses' pants was "still hot."