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Florida Shooter Was Angry At Company
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, third from left, and Orlando Police Chief Val Demings, second from right, walk with other police officials to prepare for a press conference after a shooting at the Legions Place office building in Orlando, Fla., Friday, Nov. 6,
Associated Press
November 07, 2009
ORLANDO, Fla. — Police say a former employee accused of fatally shooting one person and wounding five others at an Orlando, Fla., engineering firm thought it had blocked his efforts to obtain unemployment benefits.
Police say Jason Rodriguez told detectives after Friday’s shooting that his bosses at Reynolds, Smith and Hills had fired him two years ago for no good reason.
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Police say Rodriguez walked into the firm, pulled a gun and fatally shot an employee. He then opened fire on others, wounding them. He surrendered a short time later at his mother’s house.
Associated Press writers Travis Reed, Kelli Kennedy, Jennifer Kay, Laura Wides-Munoz, David Fischer and Damian Grass in Miami; Mitch Stacy and Tamara Lush in Orlando; and Christine Armario in Tampa contributed to this report.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Police say a former employee accused of fatally shooting one person and wounding five others at an Orlando, Fla., engineering firm thought it had blocked his efforts to obtain unemployment benefits.
Police say Jason Rodriguez told detectives after Friday’s shooting that his bosses at Reynolds, Smith and Hills had fired him two years ago for no good reason.
He recently worked at a Subway sandwich shop but told detectives he quit because he couldn’t get enough hours. He said he filed for unemployment but an expected check didn’t come and he blamed Reynolds, Smith and Hills.
Police say Rodriguez walked into the firm, pulled a gun and fatally shot an employee. He then opened fire on others, wounding them. He surrendered a short time later at his mother’s house.
normancm
16 days ago
150 Comments
I've been pissed off at my ex-boss and the companies I have worked for but I'm stable enough to leave it at the door when I go home. A good night's sleep usually makes all the difference. It's becoming a sad state when we have to worry about other unstable co-workers. Geez, people need to relax!
Bigbubbasmom
16 days ago
54 Comments
Officer Kim Hundley's twin sister should have been working for Orlando PD on this patricular day. Things would have ended entirely differrent. God Bless those u were at this 10-96's wrath! Innocent, just innocent.
coshane220
16 days ago
8400 Comments
SilVa03...it looks to me like you just put your foot in your mouth so to speak! It is not the people that LEGALLY possess firearms that you need to be affraid of! It's the people that want something for nothing and think everyone else owes them that you need to watch out for!
Whalewatcher
16 days ago
1450 Comments
Most of us, when we get to the end of our respective ropes, we tie a knot in the end and hang on. Obviously, he let his slip right through his hands. Now, he has to face the music !!!
trooperman911
16 days ago
1664 Comments
BUMP I Concur with the words of Sheriff_1, and couldn't have said it any more effectively. There's too many of these human powder kegs roaming our streets today. No place appears safe anymore.
Sheriff_1
16 days ago
6834 Comments
Hard to read any justification on this. Sure carried a grudge for two years and then decides to kill. Nut case.
Redrover
16 days ago
238 Comments
Everyone gets upset with their place of employment and/or co-workers at one point in time, why doesn't society help this point get across? i'm sure someone at Subway heard him make a statement before people got hurt...two wrongs doesn't make a right, just a felony/
msdiva
16 days ago
742 Comments
hmmm..a little confused by this one. If your last employer was subway and the previous one was from 2 years ago... How is previous one to blame??? This guy was definitley a whack job! Yea for Florida and the DP! Its a damn shame when you cant go to work and not worry about a unstable ex employee coming back to kill you.
Riot
16 days ago
318 Comments
Yet another reason why employees should have the right to carry at work...
BluEyedClass
16 days ago
476 Comments
SilVa03....the right to bear arms is a constitutional right to protect yourself and if you had been in that room that "person" who carried a gun (legally of course) may have just saved your life by shooting that idiot...Oh ..and you really need to get something for that cough ;0
Those of us who follow the constitutional guidelines as well as our government and state laws regarding firearms are not the ones you need to worry about..
Bottom line is he cannot justify in any way what he did...and agree with Irishcop ....accountability is a must and I think it needs to get alot tougher.
ucfknightsfan
16 days ago
70 Comments
This guy should've just off-ed himself to save us taxpayers some money on the trial. I'm pissed this happened in my city, and hope this guy gets the DP.
Irishcop1961
16 days ago
15364 Comments
Well said kma438. Now we just have to make them accountable.
challedog
16 days ago
94 Comments
SilVa03,
If this were truely a "right to bear arms" country the employees would have shot back.
Since you aren't a cop, I wouldn't expect you to understand.
SilVa03
16 days ago
82 Comments
Only in America, hmm i wonder why...cough (right to bear arm) cough cough...
kma438
16 days ago
52 Comments
EDPs they're over populating this country!