1 Dead, 5 Wounded In Orlando Shooting

2009_11_orlshooting.jpg A few hours ago, a man opened fire in an Orlando, Florida high-rise office building. According to the Orlando Sentinel, the suspect is a former employee and the shootings occurred at a transportation consulting firm. CNN reports, "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." Update: Now it's reported the gunman was captured and that one person was killed and five others were wounded.

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Why does it feel like this happens only in America? Like...constantly? Get these men into anger management!

I hope it's an unemployed guy.
soon the media will make the unemployed the bad guys.

His religion must have been the motive.

I live in the Orlando area, and when I first moved here in 2000 there was virtually no crime...as compared to mow. Anger management...better than that conversion.

i was going to sarcastically ask if there would be a post about this.

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