Spectrum News 13 (Orlando) Photojournalist Jesse Walden was shot while out covering a story.

Walden and Reporter Dylan Lyons were covering a story of a murder that happened earlier in the day on Wednesday.

That’s when cops say that the murderer returned to the scene and shot both Journalists.

Lyons was killed and Walden was critically injured.

Walden is recovering at the hospital and has started his physical therapy. He talked of losing his co-worker in the shooting. “You’re losing a friend,” he said from his hospital bed. “You’re not losing an acquaintance or just coworker — it’s someone that made working fun.”

“Dylan was a very, very wholesome person,” Walden said. “He had a great sense of humor, too.”

Walden wanted to share his thoughts on Lyons and wanted to be interviewed from his hospital room. He described his friend as a go-getter who was happy to be doing what he loved.

“He had a very strong sense of justice,” Walden said. “He would really want everyone to follow the rules when it came to people of power.”

Walden has a long road ahead as he works to process the unimaginable, but is hoping to be out of the hospital in the next day or two.

He said the support he’s received from loved ones, old coworkers and even strangers has been amazing.

“Every step of the way, I’ve been blessed,” he said. “People care.”

H/T News 13