Bob McCarty Writes

Breaking News: The Orlando Sentinel and other media outlets are reporting that eight people have been injured in a shooting incident in downtown Orlando.  Is it a copycat shooting less than 24 hours after the massacre at Fort Hood?  Developing…

UDPATE #1 11/6/09 at 11:55 p.m. Central: Fox News is reporting that the shootings took place on the 8th floor of the Gateway Center at 1000 Legion Place (right) in downtown Orlando.

UDPATE #2 11/6/09 at 12:03 p.m. Central: The Orlando Sentinel is reporting 2 dead.

UDPATE #3 11/6/09 at 12:05 p.m. Central: Fox News is reporting that bodies have been found on the 8th and 10th floors of the Gateway Center building.

UDPATE #4 11/6/09 at 12:14 p.m. Central: My Fox Orlando reports the following businesses are inside the Gateway Center:

• Alternative Service Concepts LLC
• Batts Morrison Wales & Lee
• Engauge Communications
• Hirschy Development
• Jacobs Engineering Group Inc
• Natures Table Cafe
• Orlando Movers
• R w Beck Inc
• Reynolds Smith & Hills Inc
• Servant Investments Management LLC
• Shuffield & Lowman
• Sunshine Network
• SunSports
• Tews Company Staffing

UDPATE #5 11/6/09 at 12:45 p.m. Central: Law enforcement officials in Orlando say they are looking for a suspect by the name of Jason Rodriguez, 40, who is a former employee of one of the companies inside Gateway Center.

UDPATE #6 11/6/09 at 1:22 p.m. Central: WOFL’s Shannon Butler, speaking on Fox News Channel, just reported that Orlando Police Department officials have arrested the suspected shooter.

UDPATE #7 11/6/09 at 9:11 p.m. Central: I should have updated this early, but news reports like this one are now saying that Rodriguez is suspecting of killing one and wounding 5.