Casey Lyons, who was engaged to the late TV journalist Dylan Lyons before his death, is expecting the couple’s first child.
Spectrum News 13 reporter Dylan Lyons was killed in February 2023 after a gunman fatally shot three people in Florida.
Less than three years after his death, Casey Lyons announced on social media and in an interview with NBC affiliate WESH of Daytona Beach that she was expecting his child, a son.
On X, she shared a photo of two ultrasound photos next to a onesie, which read, “I’m so cool I used to be frozen #IVFbaby.”
“The biggest miracle is coming March 2026! Dylan Colby Lyons Jr, I love you so much already!” Casey Lyons wrote in the post. “your dad and I have dreamt about you for years and I know he sent you to me. I am so excited to be your mommy and see your daddy through your eyes.”
Casey Lyons shared with WESH that she was expecting their first child together via surrogate. She told the outlet that on the night of the shooting, they were able to retrieve Dylan Lyons’ sperm.
Since then, she’s tried to have her late fiancé’s baby via in vitro fertilization, per the affiliate. After several attempts, Casey Lyons made the decision to use a surrogate, whom she has known since college.
“The pain is never going to go away,” she told the outlet. “I will be grieving for the rest of my life, but having this baby is going to help me navigate, to live a life until I get to see Dylan again.”
Casey Lyons said that her late fiancé “always wanted to be a father,” adding, “He just would be so excited. I know he would be over the moon that we’re finally having a baby.”
Their son, Dylan Lyons Jr., is due in March 2026, the same month that his father was born.
Casey Lyons, who said she has the full support of Dylan Lyons’ family, also told the outlet how she plans to tell her son about his father.
“He’s going to know how much he’s wanted by Dylan and by a very bad person took that away,” she said.
Keith Melvin Moses was accused of fatally shooting Lyons, Nathacha Augustin, 38, and 9-year-old T’Yonna Major in 2023. He faces three counts of first-degree murder and pleaded not guilty, per WESH.
Spectrum News shared a statement after Dylan Lyons’ death, reading in part, “We are deeply saddened by the loss of our colleague and the other lives senselessly taken today.”
