UPDATE: Witness Mark Davidson came out of the hospital today and told reporters that the shooting only lasted a minute. Rodriguez reportedly entered the reception area and began firing. He claimed no one was screaming and yelling and the shooter was very calm. Otis Beckford, 26, so far is the only one who died in the shooting. The others have either been released or in stable condition in the hospital.

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An ex-employee of an engineering consulting firm who was laid off in 2007 opened fire at his former workplace in Orlando, Florida, on Friday, killing one person and wounding five others, police said.

Police named the suspect as 40-year-old Jason Rodriguez, who had worked for 11 months as an engineer at the Orlando office of the Reynolds, Smith & Hill consulting company before being laid off for "deficient" performance, a company spokesman said.

CNN showed footage of Rodriguez being led away in handcuffs and said he replied "They left me to rot", when asked by reporters why he had opened fire.

The shooting occurred a day after a mass shooting at a U.S. army base in Texas which killed 13 people.

(Reporting by Barbara Liston; Editing by Pascal Fletcher and David Storey)