ORLANDO, Florida, Nov 6, (AFP) -A disgruntled ex-worker shot dead one person and wounded five others in an office building here Friday before shouting “they left me to rot” as he was hauled into custody, police said.
In the second mass shooting in the United States in two days, the alleged shooter, 40-year-old Jason Rodriguez, apparently went to the office of his old firm and opened fire with a handgun, unleashing a hail of bullets on employees.
His eventual arrest at his mother's home after a tense, three-hour manhunt came as Americans reeled from a rampage 24 hours earlier at a Texas military base that left 13 people dead and 30 wounded.
Earlier, panicked Florida workers had barricaded themselves into their offices at the Gateway Center in central Orlando as SWAT teams combed through the 16-storey office building trying to find the shooter.
Some three hours later, police acting on a tip converged on his mother's apartment where he surrendered without incident. It was not immediately clear if his mother or someone else had telephoned the authorities. |
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