Sister of woman killed in Pine Hills mass shooting shares ‘indescribable pain’

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By Ashley Edlund and Adam Poulisse

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Natacha Augustin was a light to her family.

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“Always checking on us, she loved being an aunt to my daughter,” her sister Rose Wright said.

That light will never be dimmed, even in the wake of tragedy.

Augustin, 38, was one of three people killed during a shooting spree Wednesday in Pine Hills.

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“We are still trying to process the initial shock of all of this,” Wright said. “It’s an indescribable pain to lose a loved one in this way.”

Wright went on to say, “Justice needs to be served,” but that it’s difficult “to talk about what that looks like.”

Wright said she wasn’t comfortable talking about the accused shooter, 19-year-old, Keith Moses, and the questions lingering about why he targeted her sister, the first victim in the shooting spree.

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“We are still processing this,” she said. “We are still trying to wake up to this, our reality.”

But wright wants the community to remember Augustin for who she was in life.

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“I want them to know what a loving and giving person she is,” Wright said. “She’s a big supporter of everyone. It’s a big, empty space this is leaving in our hearts.”

Augustin’s family said she was also a rapper at one point, and a very good one.

Families, communities remember victims after Orange County mass shooting T’Yonna Major, 9, Spectrum News 13 reporter Dylan Lyons, 24, and Nathacha Augustin died in a mass shooting Wednesday. (WFTV/WFTV)

Dylan Lyons and T'Yonna Major Deputies say an Orange County man shot five people in Pine Hills on Wednesday, killing three of them, including a 9-year-old girl and a TV news reporter. (Mynews13.com/GoFundMe)

Orange County shooting: What we know about the victims Dylan Lyons, 24, was identified as one of the five victims in the Pine Hills mass shooting. (WFTV)

Remembering Dylan Lyons Dylan Lyons with the Channel 9 staff. (wftv.com)

Nathacha Augustin Nathacha Augustin (wftv.com)

T'Yonna Major T'Yonna Major (wftv.com)

Remembering Dylan Lyons Dylan Lyons interned with WFTV Channel 9. (wftv.com)

Florida TV Crew Attack TV journalist Dylan Lyons, 24, poses for a photo with his girlfriend, left, and mom at the Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists awards ceremony on May 7, 2022 in Orlando, Fla. Lyons, a journalist with Spectrum 13 News in Orlando, was shot and killed Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, while covering a story about a murdered woman. (Jonathan Galen via AP) (Jonathan Galed)

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Remembering Dylan Lyons Dylan Lyons interned with WFTV Channel 9. (wftv.com)

Remembering Dylan Lyons Dylan Lyons with Channel 9 anchor Greg Warmoth. (wftv.com)

Fundraiser created to support family of slain reporter Dylan Lyons

Spectrum News 13 reporter Dylan Lyons Spectrum News 13 in Orlando, Florida, identified Dylan Lyons as the TV journalist who died Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023, after he was shot while covering another deadly shooting in Pine Hills. (Mynews13.com via WFTV)

UCF students create memorial to honor slain TV journalist Dylan Lyons

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