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The households of Orlando, Florida, capturing spree victims, journalist Dylan Lyon and nine-year-old T’yonna Main, shared their emotional story and demanded “sane and accountable gun laws in America” following the dying of their family members, Friday on CNN This Morning.
“She made me a lady dad, and a gymnastics dad. I’ll all the time be her number-one fan. Yaya sturdy, she was my world,” Tokiyo Main, father of T’yonna Main, stated as he wore the 26 medals T’yonna had received throughout her time in gymnastics.
Brandi Main, T’yonna’s mom, stated her daughter “was simply my coronary heart, my angel, and I’m gonna miss her a lot.”
“My coronary heart hurts greater than something, typically I simply want I coulda took each bullet for her. And he or she might be right here and nonetheless shining and displaying y’all how nice she is,” Brandi Main continued as Beth Lyons, mom of Dylan Lyons, positioned a supportive hand on her shoulder.
Beth Lyons, whereas clutching a pillow with an image of her son, stated that Dylan was “a mama’s boy that may do something for” her. “When Dylan died, I died,” she added.
Dylan’s fiancé, Casey Fite, mourns his dying in addition to the life they’d deliberate collectively, “I’m simply so devastated that it was ripped from me so early.” She defined that she and Dylan “needed to have three infants. We had the names picked out already. We simply, we have been so glad.”
Casey has began a Gofundme web page, which CNN has verified, geared toward elevating cash to pay for IVF therapy in order that she “can have the child we so desperately needed to have collectively.” Following Dylan’s dying, a health care provider was capable of harvest eight vials of his sperm for IVF therapy, a household legal professional instructed CNN.
Dylan’s father, Gary Lyon, ended the interview by stating that “right now is concerning the bonding between” the Majors and the Lyons. “We’re bonded endlessly due to this tragedy and we wish change in America. We would like change as a result of this could by no means have occurred.”
“We’ve cried with Tokiyo and Brandi, we’ve shared one another’s lives, tales about our kids, we’re fathers and moms, fiancés who’ve misplaced such a … our lives won’t ever be the identical and we simply need change in America,” he added.
Sheriff’s investigators have stated the suspected shooter, Keith Moses, is accused of killing a girl on the morning of February 22 – which introduced information crews to the scene. Hours later within the neighborhood simply west of Orlando, he broke right into a household residence and shot T’Yonna Main and her mom, then went outdoors and fatally shot a reporter and wounded one other journalist, in keeping with the affidavit for the arrest warrant.