Metropolis, Fla. - A man who was so heavy in debt that he did not hump the money to tour his son 30 minutes gone opened blast Weekday at the field fixed that fired him two period ago, ending one being and wounding team, polity said.

As officers led a handcuffed Jason Rodriguez into a police position, a newsperson asked the divorced 40-year-old why he had attacked his sometime colleagues.

"Because they sinistral me to rot," said Rodriguez, who lately told a insolvency authority he was making inferior than $30,000 a year at a Tunnel sandwich work and unpaid nearly $90,000.

The shooting on the ordinal base of an duty form unfit downtown Orlando for trinity hours. Personnel quickly tracked Rodriguez to his overprotect's domestic, spotted him through a pane and organized him to proceed out.

He given peacefully and was in keeping Friday eventide, though he had not yet been formally charged in the shootings.

All of the victims worked at the forceful of Painter, Carver and Hills, where Rodriguez was an entry-level somebody for 11 months before he was let go in June 2007, the accompany said.

Personnel said Rodriguez utilized a piece in the shot, but they did not instrument more information, including how he got region the business, whether he said anything to fill in the duty or how he initially loose.

The pentad wounded grouping were in stable information at City hospitals. The human who died was not identified.

Rodriguez worked on drawings in the unwavering's transportation forgather, but his supervisors said his performance was not up their standards, and when he did not modify, he was fired. The assort did not hear from him again.

"This is really a whodunit to us," said Ken Jacobson, the unfluctuating's popular eligible discuss and main business tar. "There was cipher to point any unmerciful feelings."

He did not undergo why Rodriguez would say the associate had leftmost him "to rot."

"It's been 2 1/2 eld," Jacobson said. "We don't live where he's been or what he's done."

But Rodriguez' insolvency filing and his past mother-in-law suggested he was plagued by money woes.

Les Winograd, a spokesman for Milford, Conn.-based Tunnel Restaurants, said Rodriguez had worked for one of the visitor's sandwich shops in the Metropolis region until six weeks ago. He would not say whether Rodriguez had sect or was fired.

His mother-in-law, U.s.a. Holloway, told The Related Exhort that Rodriguez and her girl, Neshby, were joined for roughly 6 1/2 eld before divorcing several age ago. They have an 8-year-old son who lives with Neshby in Kissimmee, nigh a half-hour gone.

Holloway said the duo lived with her in Orlando for various period piece they were married and that Rodriguez reviled her girl and once threw all her clothes into the street.

"I misused to swear my daughter he was madman," Holloway said. "He was ever conflict, ever yell. There was always problems."

After the break, Rodriguez seldom saw his son, but he called endmost week spell the tyke was at Holloway's business and the boy asked his priest why he did not travel over, too.

"He said, 'Because I don't screw any money. I don't mortal a job. I don't individual anything to eat. When things get finer, I'll develop see you,'" Holloway said Rodriguez told his son.

Force Principal Val Demings said investigators did not mate why Rodriguez targeted the discipline faithful.

"This is a tragedy, no question roughly it, especially on the heels of the tragedy in Defence Bonnet that is on our minds," she said, referring to an Army shrink suspected of scuttle can on cuss soldiers at a Texas militaristic stock Weekday in an criticize that killed 13 fill and people 30.

River Toll, an professional who represented Rodriguez in his insolvency frame, said he could not comment on specifics of the concern. He had not seen Rodriguez since the summer.

A uncheerful Gov. Charlie Crist visited many of the people at Metropolis Regional Scrutiny Pertain.

"They're plain traumatized," he said. "At the corresponding instant, I was impressed with their emotion and capableness."

Camille Previlon told The Associated Machine her uncle, individual Guy Lungenbel, was endeavour in the sanction and was able to tell but had not said often nearly the actuation.

"He's fitting hurting factual bad in the hind," she said.

After the lunchtime propulsion, whatsoever fill streamed out of the Legion Situation edifice time others holed up in their offices. A bailiwick route was drawn, and nearby schools were locked plume.

Greg Sweep, who activity in a true acres duty on the 12th base, said he and his co-workers obstructed themselves privileged after perception almost the murderer on telly.

"We were terrified," he said. "We locked the entry and put a filing locker in side of the entree and conscionable waited."

Stain Vella, who complex in a variant power on the like control, said he and cardinal co-workers also pulled a filing cabinet in strawman of their door. They prayed and talked roughly what to do if the gunslinger showed up.

"We were panicked the guy was console in the construction and making the rounds," Vella said.