by wildcherry on Friday, February 12th, 2010 | News, World | No Comments

Officials at the University of Alabama’s Huntsville campus say three people have been killed and another injured in a campus shooting. University spokesman Ray Garner says a woman is in custody but he could not identify her or any of the victims.

Trent Willis, chief of staff for Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle, says there are several other shooting injuries in addition to the four. He doesn’t have an exact number.

Sophomore Erin Johnson tells The Huntsville Times a biology faculty meeting was under way when she heard screams coming from the room.

The shooting happened Friday afternoon in the university’s Shelby Center, a science building. University police secured the building and students were cleared from it.

The Huntsville campus has about 7,500 students in northern Alabama, not far from the Tennessee line.

Source:Associate Press

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by wildcherry on Friday, November 6th, 2009 | News, World | 1 Comment

Orlando’s shooting suspect, Jason Rodriguez, 40, was arrested a little after 2 p.m.at his mother’s apartment at the intersection of Curry Ford Road and State Road 436.

Rodriguez, who is suspected of killing one person and wounding five others, worked for Reynolds Smith & Hills, an architectural engineering firm, located at the eight floor of the 1000 Legion’s Place, where the shooting took place.

A spokesman for the firm confirmed that Rodriguez was terminated in June 2007 for “a performance issue,” though a different company employee said he was let go as part of a larger layoff.

At RS&H, he did architectural work, said Renato Gonzalez, a manager in the firm’s DeLand office. Gonzalez described Rodriguez’s separation from the company as part of a larger company layoff.

“I know that we was not very happy with the layoff,” said Gonzalez, who recalled that Rodriguez made disgruntled comments when he left the firm, though nothing that indicated he would resort violence.

“He took it a little worse than most people.”

RS&H has 11 offices across Florida, including in DeLand, Merritt Island and Tampa.

Records show he filed for bankruptcy in Orlando in September.

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