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NAME: US OFFICE 20091107Ixx TAPE: EF09/1045 IN_TIME: 10:51:05:20 DURATION: 00:02:45:14 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION/ABC DATELINE: Orlando - 6 Nov 2009 RESTRICTIONS: See Shotlist SHOTLIST: ABC - No Access NAmerica/Internet 1 Office shooting suspect Jason Rodriquez being led out of a police car in handcuffs and into police station Reporter: Jason, do you have anything to say for yourself ? Do you have anything to say, sir? Sir, why did you do it? Why did you do it? Why did you do it? Rodriguez: Because they left me to rot Reporter: They left you to rot? You're mad at your employers? Who left you to rot? ABC - NO ACCESS NORTH AMERICA/INTERNET Orlando, Florida - 6 November 2009 2 Mid of police officers and yellow cordon tape outside scene of shooting, pull out to wide of office building and ambulances 3 Police officers walking towards office building and through cordoned off area 4 Emergency workers wheeling medical stretcher towards office building 5 SOUNDBITE: (English) Val Demings, Orlando Police Chief: You know, it's still a lot of details that we're sorting through right now It's such a tragedy to occur, especially after the shooting that occurred in Texas yesterday Still a lot of details we need to sort through AP TELEVISION Orlando, Florida - 6 November 2009 6 Wide of fire trucks and ambulances blocking off a road at the scene 7 Wide of police officers at the scene 8 Mid of police officers walking inside cordoned off area 9 Police officers with semi-automatic weapons outside office building 10 Another officer with a semi-automatic weapon standing on footpath outside building 11 Wide of emergency workers wheeling a medical stretcher towards building 12 SOUNDBITE: (English) Camille Previlon, Niece of a shooting victim: My uncle does work in this facility He works downstairs The only thing I know is that he's been shot in the back But we're still waiting on answers So far, we know he will make it, cause you know, he called, he was conscious, it's just that he's in a lot of pain And that's all we know 13 Close-up of emergency sign outside Orlando Regional Medical Center, pull out to wide shot of the hospital as ambulance pulls away AP Television 14 Pan of Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC), a hospital treating victims 15 Mid of emergency room entrance 16 SOUNDBITE: (English) Joe Brown, spokesman for Orlando Regional Medical Centre: We've determined that of the four patients we've received at ORMC, three of the four are male patients One female All are in various stages of treatment right now All appear to be more on the stable side than anything else 17 Ambulance leaving hospital 18 Police tape around apartment building where suspect lived, pull out to wide 19 Apartment complex sign 20 SOUNDBITE: (English) Casandra, neighbour (surname refused): I mean, his demeanour was a bit weird, but really, no, he didn't look creepy He looked like your ordinary neighbour 21 Neighbour walking with young daughter 22 SOUNDBITE: (English) Jenny Estrada, neighbour: You can't walk outside right now because you know when you walk, you know that this could happen 23 Police officer lifting police tape to allow cars to drive in 24 Police lights STORYLINE: A gunman opened fire on Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was sacked more than two years ago, killing one person and injuring five others Jason Rodriguez, 40, who surrendered to police about three hours after the shooting, told reporters he had been 'left to rot' He said he was 'angry', as police led him away in handcuffs He was arrested after officers saw him through the window of his mother's home and asked him to come outside, according to Val Demings, Orlando Police Chief Later reports emerged that he was so deep in debt that he did not have the money to visit his son 30 minutes away and had told a bankruptcy judge that he had debts totalling three times his annual salary As officers led a handcuffed Jason Rodriguez into a police station, a reporter asked the divorced 40-year-old why he had attacked his former colleagues Because they left me to rot, said Rodriguez, without saying who The shooting on the eighth floor of an office tower paralyzed downtown Orlando for three hours All of the victims worked at the firm of Reynolds, Smith and Hills, where Rodriguez was an entry-level engineer for 11 months before he was 'let go' in June 2007, the company said Supervisors said his performance was not up to standard and when he did not improve, he was fired Police said Rodriguez used a handgun in the shooting, but they did not release additional details, including how he got inside the building, whether he said anything to people in the office or how he initially escaped The five wounded people were in stable condition at Orlando hospitals Rodriguez' bankruptcy filing - and his former mother-in-law - suggested he was plagued by money worries His mother-in-law, America Holloway, told The Associated Press that Rodriguez and her daughter, Neshby, were married for about 6 years before divorcing several years ago Holloway said the couple lived with her in Orlando for several years while they were married and that Rodriguez abused her daughter and once threw all her clothes into the street Camille Previlon told AP Television her uncle, engineer Guy Lungenbel, was shot in the back and was able to talk but had not said much about the shooting He's just in a lot of pain, she said After the lunchtime shooting, some people streamed out of the Legion Place building while others holed up in their offices A major highway was closed, and nearby schools were locked down Rows of ambulances lined up outside the building as police snipers took up positions around the building and officers searched the area, on foot and horseback The Florida shooting came a day after a gunman at the Fort Hood military base in Texas killed 13 people and wounded about 30