The fiancée of the journalist murdered in Florida had his sperm extracted to be able to have her baby

The heartbroken fiancée of a journalist who was shot dead while broadcasting is raising funds to have her baby through IVF after she ordered doctors to collect his sperm the night he died.

Casey Fite had been planning to have a family with 24-year-old Dylan Lyons before he was killed during a Spectrum News 13 broadcast in Florida on February 22.

in a GoFundMe page, revealed that doctors had managed to recover eight vials of sperm from him the night he died, at her request.

Now he’s raising $50,000 so he can have IVF to implant the sperm and keep ‘Dylan’s legacy’ alive.

Lyons made headlines after he was one of three people, including a nine-year-old girl and her mother, who were shot and killed while broadcasting a homicide that had occurred in the area five hours earlier.

Dylan Lyons and Casey Fite were planning to have a family together, she says, before he was killed.

Career criminal Keith Melvin Moses, 19, was arrested in connection with the murders that police believe are related.

Writing on GoFundMe, Casey said she met Lyons in 2020 and labeled him the “love of my life.”

“From the moment I met Dylan, I knew he was someone special and he was the most handsome man I’d ever seen in my life,” she said.

“Dylan and I started dating in November 2021 and we had our whole lives planned out…he did everything for me…

“Dylan was a vegan, but he still took me to restaurants I liked just because he wanted to make me happy… that’s the kind of man my Dylan was.”

She later added: “Dylan and I wanted nothing more than to get married and have kids…the night he passed away.”

Lyons (right) and his fiancee Casey Lynn. The couple met in 2020 and began dating in November 2021.

Lyons was an ambitious young reporter described as ‘a voice for the voiceless’

‘I inquired about the collection of his sperm. I called doctor after doctor until I found one who could perform the procedure within the 24 hour period.

‘The doctor was able to retrieve 8 vials of his sperm, and I am going to do IVF to have the baby we both wanted together.

“I’m devastated that he can’t be here for what we always wanted…Dylan would have been the best father in the world…any contribution would be appreciated so we can have our baby as I want to keep my Dylan’s legacy alive.” .

By Thursday night the page had already raised $1,040.

Lyons was tragically shot while on the scene in Pine Hills near Orlando to report on the murder of Nathacha Augustin, a 38-year-old woman who was killed in a car hours earlier.

However, after arriving at the crime scene, the suspect returned and began shooting again, killing the news reporter and wounding his photographer.

Police were then called to a third nearby shooting, where a mother and her nine-year-old daughter had been attacked in a residential home.

The child later died and the mother is understood to still be in critical condition.

Suspect Keith Melvin Moses was photographed taunting and smiling while handcuffed in connection with the shootings.

It is understood that Moses met the first victim, though his motives for the subsequent murders are unclear.

Keith Melvin Moses, 19, is accused of shooting the reporter and cameraman after they went to report on the death of Moses’ first victim, 38-year-old Nathacha Augustin.

Cameraman and photographer Jesse Walden, who was with Lyons at the time, was also shot, though he survived.

Lyons, a native of Philadelphia, graduated with a BA in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Central Florida in 2020.

He received his Master’s in Criminal Justice a year later.

The ambitious reporter was known for being ‘a voice for the voiceless’ and reported on a myriad of stories in his community, including crime, politics and social issues.

Last year, he wrote on Twitter: ‘November 7, 2021 changed my life forever! It’s the day you became my girlfriend! That was one of the easiest decisions of my life! You are a remarkable, beautiful, kind, caring and caring girl, Case! I love you a lot!’