Friday, November 6, 2009

Suspect in Orlando Office Shooting Had Money Woes - ABC News

http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9016066
HOW CRAZY IS IT THAT SOME PEOPLE TAKE THE LIVES OF OTHERS BECAUSE OF PERSONAL FAILINGS OR DISAPPOINTMENTS IN THEIR OWN LIFE. THIS MAN'S SOLUTIONS TO HIS MONEY PROBLEMS WAS TO GO OUT AND INJURE OR KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE. THE FORT HOOD EXECUTIONER LOST TRACK OF THE TEACHINGS OF HIS OWN PROFESSION AND MEDICAL SPECIALTY. WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP THESE TYPES OF INCIDENTS? DO YOU THINK THE REPORTING OF THE FORT HOOD INCIDENT PLAYED A PART IN THE FLORIDA SHOOTING? IF SO SHOULD THE MEDIA REPORT ON MASS MURDERS?

"A man so broke that he said he didn't have the money to visit his son 30 minutes away opened fire Friday at the engineering firm that fired him two years ago, killing one person and wounding five, authorities said.

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, who recently told a bankruptcy judge he was making less than $30,000 a year at a Subway sandwich shop and owed nearly $90,000..."

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