Community | November 06, 2009 | 35 comments

Shooting at Orlando high rise: Gunman apprehended

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/06/gateway-center-shooting-a_n_348566.html

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Chod77
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MSNBC has just reported that there has been a shooting at a high rise in Downtown Orlando Florida. At least 8 people have been shot. The gunman is still on the loose.

Update: There are two reported fatalities. Four of the patients are in critical condition. The gunman is still not in custody. The shooting took place on the 8th floor. There is evidence to suggest that the shooter may have been a former employee.

Update: The shooter's name is Jason Rodriguez. It has been confirmed that he was a former employee of one of the businesses in that building. He is considered armed and extremely dangerous.

Update: Four of the victims are in surgery. Here is a picture of the shooter: http://www.clickorlando.com/image/21542433/detail.html
Barbara Jones of the Orlando Police Department has said that there is only six victims.
Rodriguez was laid off from a company in the building over 2 years ago. The building has now been emptied.

Update: Police have spotted the suspect's vehicle at an Orlando apartment complex. It looks like they have the shooter in custody.

Update: The gunman has been apprehended. So far, five people were injured, one was taken to the hospital for heart problems, one person was killed.
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35 comments // Shooting at Orlando high rise: Gunman apprehended

  • passjay
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      passjay  

    • I wonder how many sympathizers this guy really has, why with the economy so very down...and with so many people out of work....seeing we're all getting dooped by the same organization altogether.....he feels betrayed by his employers......awww.....no rationalizing those that lost there lives..may they rest in peace

    • 2 years ago
  • eden49
  • jaymzryan
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      jaymzryan  

    • i was at that scene today. the gunman was caught at an apartment complex almost across the road from where i live. crazy day!

    • 2 years ago
  • zphoenixdownz
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  

    • Some people handle stress better than others . All these impersonal institutions where no one is responsible for the evil they do , have eroded our humanity and degraded many into desperation (corporations , banks , insurance co's ) War , lack of homes , jobs - even healthcare , is driving people over the edge . This is how our civilization will implode , if it does . It will die because we lost our humanity . All the pills in the world cannot fix that .

    • 2 years ago
  • DEVORULES
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      DEVORULES  

    • funny, i was working while this was happening. i still had to make food deliveries on my bike to office buildings downtown. people knew what was going on and STILL called for deliveries.... COME ONNNNN

    • 2 years ago
  • LowShred
  • PajamaDan
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      PajamaDan  
    • LowShred:

      Sadly,... these things happen in 3's, 10's, 20's, 100's and 1,000's. Droves of angry, hateful or unstable people act out daily. But I see only ONE pattern --- human nature.

    • 2 years ago
  • JulianCommongold
  • PajamaDan
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      PajamaDan  

    • So many guns,... so little time. It's sickening to see how high tensions can get, how intensified anger gets and how easily it is for someone to express their hatred. Looks like ANY kind of peace is far, far away.

    • 2 years ago
  • pandaman2105
  • Ajil
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      Ajil  
    • pandaman2105:

      oh and we wouldnt want to disappoint you by discussing serious current events. Hey everybody, lets just talk about cute pandas.

      I understand that there may be a chance that you might not be disappointed with the stories being on current, but the stories themselves; yet i couldnt hold myself from pointing out the way your comment came off. and while it is sadening that there has been two shootings in the U.S. so close together, it actually happens all the time, but this story is getting some run off lime-light from the Fort Hood event. That isnt to say this occurrence is any less important or should get any less attention. In fact i believe the exact opposite, i think we should be hearing and discussing every tragic event, and trying to really understand them as best we can.

    • 2 years ago
  • pandaman2105
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      pandaman2105  
    • pandaman2105:

      sorry you interpreted it that way. i appreciate all the news on current, i wasn't expecting these to NOT appear, i just mean that it's tragic to hear about these two stories happening right next to each other, so you're ok there.

      we haven't really seen one in a while, now we get two in a row. in the midst of our environment improvements, gay rights stuff, marijuana, and obama's positive efforts, we get mass shootings. most of our recent issues have been political and pertaining to the prospect of progress.

      it's more the irony i'm referring to.
      but i'm not trying to say we shouldn't pay attention to them, i just find it unpleasant to hear about this stuff, but i know they happen.

    • 2 years ago
  • FishaHouse777
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      FishaHouse777  
    • pandaman2105:

      To Ajil,
      A shooting usually only gets media attention when it is in assassination terms. Like columbine or fort hood. So yes shootings happen everyday throughout the U.S. but usually not as tragic or massive as a planned killing spree.

    • 2 years ago
  • TheOuroborus
  • charleslewisiii
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      charleslewisiii  

    • I work about 3 blocks away in an office building downtown. Every office building down here was on lockdown. He was pissed they let him go from RS&H. Pretty crazy to see so much violence in a city that seems so small.

    • 2 years ago
  • Reaper26
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      Reaper26  

    • just a editor comment here chod he was caught in orlando, not east orange county OPD doesnt have jurisdiction in east orange county the orange county sheriff do.

    • 2 years ago
  • Reaper26
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      Reaper26  

    • hmm well since this happened in my town i should've been on top of this they caught him in 15-20mins from where i live on lake underhill and seroman blvd also know as 436. he was saying that some one left him out to rot im guessing either his former employer or laywer or accountant. thats not to far from city hall with is down the street and thats right near where all the the entertainment district is as well just across the street.

    • 2 years ago
  • regularrf
  • ichewpenis
  • YtuMira
  • MissMaverick
  • dougiestardust
  • alyssak
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      alyssak  

    • Why is there an exclamation mark in the title of this story? "Shooting at Orlando high rise! Action! Adventure! Blood! Gore!"

    • 2 years ago
  • Chod77
  • Ares
  • ochreRobot
  • EmperorThan
  • FishaHouse777
  • mario_a
  • hayden_augustus
  • carmalite
  • pandaman2105
  • FishaHouse777
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      FishaHouse777  
    • hayden_augustus:

      The lunatic is on the grass
      The lunatic is on the grass
      Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
      Got to keep the loonies on the path
      The lunatic is in the hall
      The lunatics are in my hall
      The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
      And every day the paper boy brings more
      And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
      And if there is no room upon the hill
      And if your head explodes with dark forbodings too
      I'll see you on the dark side of the moon....

      Full moons are mythically supposed to bring the crazies (lunatics) out of hiding.

    • 2 years ago
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