Former Employee Kills One, Injures Five In Orlando Office Tower
Friday November 6, 2009 2:07 p.m.
This video frame grab image taken from WFTV television shows the Legions Place office building in downtown Orlando, Fla. where a gunman has opened fire wounding several people, according to police., Friday Nov. 6, 2009. Orange County Sheriff's Spokesman Jim Solomons says his department is backing up Orlando police and they're still looking for an armed man wearing a light blue polo shirt and jeans. (AP Photo/WFTV)
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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Associated Press writers Travis Reed, Kelli Kennedy, Jennifer Kay, Laura Wides-Munoz, David Fischer and Damian Grass in Miami; Antonio Gonzalez, Mitch Stacy and Tamara Lush in Orlando; and Christine Armario in Tampa contributed to this report.
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@ 19. f u bush2,
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I have managed to get your posts reinstated (except for the two with links) and you will be seeing them all appear back on the threads within the next hour.
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@ 8. Captain John Schenck
I was trying to tell Uff about a troll we all know posting that link to Paris Business Review. I wanted to provide the link to the thread.
I think the original deletion of my post was concerning making fun of another user really. So I posted again without saying anything about the troll's identity or specifics and it got removed.
I pointed out that this deletion of my post was wrong as it was. And his was the excuse offered. I know it's just to save face.
The links are inactive. So posting a the text of a link to another thread on this board is just posting text.
There is NO good reason to not allow it. Absolutely no good reason.
But hey, I'm not going to waste time on it.
So I deleted a bunch of my other posts myself and it has a generic message that a moderator deleted it. It should read that most of my posts were deleted by the user, not the moderator.
If we can't share the story about a certain troll with other regular users on this board, then where is the fun in that? I specifically enjoyed this board because I could watch trolls flail around with their silly talking points and make glaring errors in arguments or go off the deep end in a tantrum. Having that for all to see is a perfect example of the limited intelligence of the average g0p voter.
But if that is all gone, then most of the fun is gone.
I'm not going to waste time arguing TOS. So I'm not really interested in any clarification of the deletion of my posts for posting a url to this site. It doesn't matter. Arguing about the TOS is not fun to me.
#16 fubby
What? You expected consistency?
Fret not, the rules will change to something else tomorrow. And then again the following day.
That's what makes it all the more worth reading irrelevant ToS.
@ 16. f u bush2,
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moderator_beta
It was previously. I was encouraged to try it by a moderator.
@ 14. f u bush2,
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Sorry, but the posting of links to threads within AA is not allowed at this time.
This is the link you were trying to share:
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@ 7.
Uffdaguy
I was trying to tell you something. But apparently I'm not allowed to.
Wow. Unbelievable.
I mean there is something so funny on this site. But I can't tell you about it.
@ 7.
Uffdaguy
When you go to that other thread, it will be obvious what is so comical.
Pointing it out what was so funny was ruled a violation of the TOS, but I disagree. No matter. Just look at the discussion about the Paris Business Review in posts from myself, SJI (Captain) and an "old friend".
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@ 7. Uffdaguy
hatey really topped himself on another thread. I mean my ribs hurt from laughing.
I posted about that time Oreilly made up the "Paris Business Review" to claim his boycott of France was working.
Then I noticed hatey responded with a link to a web site to Paris Business Review. He was so proud. Then SJI pointed out that hatey hadn't actually gone to the link...
Oh man. You have to see the link he posted and his half of the conversation. I mean this has got to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Check out the thread:
http://airamerica.com/really/11-04-2009/photo-obamas-mes age-fox-news/#comments
Then copy and paste hatey's link into your browser.
@ 7.
Uffdaguy
LOL
But they used to try...
Now they just half heartedly drop a silly proclamation and flee.
Blame this on Bush?
That's silly.
Bush is guilty of many things. He's a war criminal. He failed to uphold the constitution. He didn't review intelligence that led to 9/11. He started a war in Iraq for no good reason and killed thousands of US soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's. But he has nothing to do with this.
@fu bush 2
Left to gibberish? That was all they ever had!
@ 5. Uffdaguy
The trolls have been so wrong for so long that they are left to gibberish.
@3&4 bob jackson
When you tire of lying and whining, come back and have a conversation with the adults. Until then, stick to watching the psychotic ramblings of Glenn Beck.
Another lib hero for the talk show circuit
Im sure the libs will blame this on Bush too.
@1 voltar
Do you have any comments that actually make sense? So far I haven't seen any. What a waste of time.
I sure this guy had PTSD too, huh?
Also, will the Dear Leader say the police acted stupidly after they nail this guy?
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