Orlando Office Shooting – A disgruntled ex-employee worker entered an Orlando office building called Legions Place and began shooting people, killing two and wounding six more.
A witness to the Orlando office shooting told WFTV that a man who previously worked in the building had walked inside and opened fire without warning.
Police officers with assault rifles are looking for a suspect with blue shirt and blue jeans. At the moment, many of them are searching the building’s multi-level parking garage.
Bodies were found on the 12th and 8th floor of Legions Place, a 16-floor building north of Colonial Drive, but only the 12th floor of the building has been cleared by police.
The shooter has not been found, said Deputy Chief Mike Droege of the Orlando Fire Department.
“The building is not secure now,” he said. “It’s still unfolding.”
Seven people were taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center. One person complaining about chest pains was taken to Florida Hospital South.
“They have not found the shooter to my knowledge,” Droege added. They’re still clearing floor by floor.”
And that’s the latest news on the two killed and six wounded in the Orlando Office Shooting.
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November 6th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
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.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:18 am
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