1 killed and 7 hurt in Orlando

[lino]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33726074/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?GT1=43001

[spikes40]

i guess we needed to stay in contention with texas

[lino]

reinforcing the fact, that you need to be strapped at work..

[Bib3773]

ORLANDO, Fla. – A gunman opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, authorities said, killing one person and injuring five others.

Jason Rodriguez, 40, surrendered about three hours later, after officers saw him through the window of his mother's home and asked him to come outside, Orlando Police Chief Val Demings said.

Asked by a reporter outside the police station why he did it, he replied: "Because they left me to rot."

Demings said Rodriguez brought a handgun to the firm in a downtown office tower where he once worked as an engineer, but investigators are not sure what his motive was.

"This is a tragedy, no doubt about it, especially on the heels of the tragedy in Fort Hood that is on our minds," Demings said. "I'm just glad we don't have any more fatalities or any more injuries than we currently have."

Charles W. Price, an attorney who represented Rodriguez in a bankruptcy case, declined to comment.

Camille Previlon told The Associated Press her uncle, engineer Guy Lungenbel, was shot in the back and was able to talk but had not said much about the shooting.

"He is stable," she said. "He's just hurting real bad in the back."

Everyone who was shot was in the offices of Reynolds Smith & Hill, on the eighth floor. The five survivors were in stable condition, Demings said.

Company spokesman Mike Bernos said Rodriguez was an entry-level engineer who was fired in June 2007 after working there for a year.

"His performance wasn't up to our standards, so we terminated him," Bernos said. There had been no contact between the company and Rodriguez since then.

After the lunchtime shooting, people streamed out of the Legion Place building and some said they had barricaded themselves inside their offices while the gunman was on the loose.

Gerry Gilgo, who works on the floor where the shooting occurred, told The Associated Press she was meeting a co-worker at the elevators for lunch.

"She yelled, 'There are gunshots! There are gunshots! Get back in your office,'" Gilgo said.

Will Halpern, an attorney on the building's 17th floor, was among the last group to be evacuated. He said the lobby was filled with about 20 officers in SWAT gear, carrying assault weapons, ready to search.

Interstate 4 was closed in both directions through downtown and nearby schools were locked down until the alleged gunman was caught.

Rows of ambulances lined up outside the building as police snipers took up positions around the building and officers on foot and horseback searched the area.

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I look at this partially as a sign that the times are catching up with us. No jobs and lower paying jobs, people losing homes, families breaking up, all stuff that exsisted before but now with the economy being down, and depression usually peaks around the holiday season, people are just starting to snap. That said its not hard to use hard times as an excuse to be an idiot. Personally I don't care if these people take a moment and off themselves, I will never understand the need to take people with you and alter of the lives of so many for reasons that are so pety.

[Satan_3pc]

Yeah, you really can't use the economy as an excuse. That's bullshit. It even says in the article he had a past of yelling and fighting and shit. Some people are just born a happy meal short a fry. :)

[JaxChris]

If he had waited just an extra hour he would've heard the announcement that his unemployment benefits were extended by the "something for nothing" administration & "let the working stiff pay for it" congress.

I watched this one unfold today. I was quite amazed when the ghetto queen they have for a sheriff finally showed up just to announce it was over (and hog the glory) and then said "we have caught the suspect, we found him at his momma's house hanging out". Really? Can't you sound a little more grown up?

Then they went on to pat themselves on the back talking about "OPD's textbook response" and how "OPD received the call that there was an active shooter within the building and police were on scene within 1 minute". Wait wait wait. Let me get this right. The shit happened it downtown, police headquarters is downtown, you got the call while he guy was still shooting people on the 12th floor of the building, got there in 1 minute, and somehow he finished up shooting people, came down stairs, got away unseen, and eluded you for over 2 hours hanging out at his next of kin's home watching TV?

How the fuck is that textbook? You want a cookie for the dumbest response of the year? And how many SWAT members entered the building? They were still clearing the building up until the guy was caught. This wasn't the Sears tower, I could've cleared that building in less time with just myself and 1 other person. Those textbooks need some updating.

I could've drove there and found him faster.

[Satan_3pc]

Maybe they were on their doughnut break when the call came in.

[Bib3773]

If he had waited just an extra hour he would've heard the announcement that his unemployment benefits were extended by the "something for nothing" administration & "let the working stiff pay for it" congress.

I watched this one unfold today. I was quite amazed when the ghetto queen they have for a sheriff finally showed up just to announce it was over (and hog the glory) and then said "we have caught the suspect, we found him at his momma's house hanging out". Really? Can't you sound a little more grown up?

Then they went on to pat themselves on the back talking about "OPD's textbook response" and how "OPD received the call that there was an active shooter within the building and police were on scene within 1 minute". Wait wait wait. Let me get this right. The shit happened it downtown, police headquarters is downtown, you got the call while he guy was still shooting people on the 12th floor of the building, got there in 1 minute, and somehow he finished up shooting people, came down stairs, got away unseen, and eluded you for over 2 hours hanging out at his next of kin's home watching TV?

How the fuck is that textbook? You want a cookie for the dumbest response of the year? And how many SWAT members entered the building? They were still clearing the building up until the guy was caught. This wasn't the Sears tower, I could've cleared that building in less time with just myself and 1 other person. Those textbooks need some updating.

I could've drove there and found him faster.


I LoL'd

Whats sad is aside from being somewhat humerous, its mostly completely true...

[chrismia]

Bib3773 - great response and absolutely true.