Friday, November 6, 2009

Here We Go Again

Another mass shooting, this time in a high rise office building in Orlando. Suspect still on the loose at this hour.
A gunman was at large after firefighters and police responded to a reported shooting Friday at a high-rise building in Orlando, Florida, authorities said.

Authorities received a report shortly before noon of a shooting on an upper floor of the high rise, said John Tormos of the Orlando Fire Department.

A spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Office, which is helping the city police department, said investigators are looking for a man wearing a blue Polo shirt, gray vest and blue jeans.

"We're in a search mode for the gunman," said Jim Solomons, a spokesman for the sheriff's office.

CNN affiliate WESH reported that at least eight people were shot at the Gateway Center -- a 16-story building near Lake Ivanhoe and Interstate 4.

The interstate was closed in both directions near the office building, according to the Florida Department of Transportation Web site.

It's like everything's falling apart out there. It's crazy.

[UPDATE 1:51 PM] MSNBC has ID'ed the suspect as 40 year old Jason Rodriguez, a former employee in the building.

[UPDATE 2:30 PM] AP is reporting that Rodriguez has been apprehended.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio

A nation turns it's lonely eyes to you

What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson

Joltin' Joe has left and gone away

Anonymous said...

They were singing,
"bye-bye, Miss American Pie."
Drove my Chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin', "this'll be the day that I die."

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