ORLANDO, Fla. -- During a morning news conference, Reynolds, Smith & Hills CEO Leerie Jenkins (visit their website) said they are providing counseling for employees and their families after a shooting at their downtown Orlando office killed one Friday.

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NEWS BRIEF: Monday Morning Update On Shooting
SURVEILLANCE: Images In Building Capture Killer

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Jenkins said the families of RS&H employees are asking for privacy (watch full news briefing). He said he was encouraged by reports from the hospital regarding victims recovering and said the company was sticking by them through the entire healing process.

Mayor Buddy Dyer spoke briefly, saying it’s a shock to the community and that the city also supports the victims and will be involved in the healing process.

Orlando Police Chief Val Demings said the investigation is ongoing and that they recovered a weapon and it is being tested to confirm it was the weapon 40-year-old Jason Rodriguez used during Friday’s violent attack at a company where the man had been fired from more than two years earlier. She said more charges are expected.

REWARDED OFFERED, IMAGES RELEASED

Monday morning, security guards removed the crime tape around the Gateway Center in downtown Orlando, but the investigation into the shooting continues.

The blood in the elevators will be washed away, but the horror of what happened three days before will still be haunting the minds of workers who survived the deadly Gateway Center shootings -- the worst in modern Orlando history.

The Gateway Center will open its doors for the first time since police say a former employee stormed in and opened fire, but it will be just too soon for many employees to walk into a building where bullets ripped through six co-workers.

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FIRST APPEARANCE: Shooter Faces Judge
SHOOTER'S FRIEND: "He's Not A Monster"
FORMER IN-LAWS: Talk To WFTV

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Because of that, the church that opened its doors for family members to cope on Friday did so once again Monday. Grief counselors are on hand at College Park Baptist Church on Edgewater Drive (see map).

Only the eighth-floor -- where the shootings happened -- will remain closed Monday, but a church staff member told Eyewitness News Sunday, all employees of the high-rise are welcome to come cope together.

Surveillance pictures of the shooter at the scene are difficult to make out, but investigators released two of them over the weekend (see them here). They show confessed killer Jason Rodriguez walking around the lobby of the Gateway Center last Friday morning.

Orlando police won't tell Eyewitness News anything other than that, but it is clear Rodriguez is wearing two different outfits during the time he shot six people at random inside the downtown office building where he worked two years ago.

Investigators also released a picture of Rodriguez' silver Hyundai, because they need to figure out where he was from the time he left the shooting scene at approximately 11:45am Friday morning until 2:15pm, when the SWAT team talked him out of his mother's apartment on Curry Ford Road.

Again, detectives will not release specifics about why they need to know, but police are offering a reward up to $5,000 through the Crimeline program for information that can shed more light on Rodriguez and what he was doing while the victims were rushed into surgery.

On Sunday night, investigators returned to the apartment complex to search a dumpster and the area around it but did not say what they were looking for.

"CLASSIC CASE OF STRESS OVERLOAD"

When Jason Rodriguez was caught at his mother's house, he told police he was going through tough times and records corroborate his story. His marriage long ago went sour, he had lost his home to foreclosure, his job to incompetence and he had filed for bankruptcy.

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RAW VIDEO: Killer Taken To Jail
TEAM COVERAGE: No Bond For Killer
FAMILY MOURNS: Young Father Dies In Shooting
IMAGES: Shooting Victim Otis Beckford
DOCUMENT: Charging Affidavit

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As more information about Rodriguez surfaced, it seemed everything he worked towards ended in failure -- except his alleged plot to kill.

The 40-year-old, whose life seemed to just keep getting worse, did so again Saturday when he faced a judge (watch video) on charges of first-degree murder, accused of killing one and wounding five Friday at his former office.

He said nothing in his brief court appearance, but his attorney portrayed him as a mentally ill man who fell victim to countless problems.

"This guy is a compilation of the front page of the entire year -- unemployment, foreclosure, bankruptcy, divorce -- all of the stresses," said the public defender, Bob Wesley. "He has been declining in mental health. There is no logic whatsoever, which points to a mental health case. It looks like a classic case of stress overload."

Police refused to say anything more Saturday about their investigation into the shooting. But as Rodriguez remained on suicide watch at the Orange County jail, a portrait of his crumbling life began to emerge.

He couldn't pay the child support he owed for his 8-year-old son. He was nearly $90,000 behind on bills, his bankruptcy file showed. A once-promising, but short-lived career at an engineering firm faded into a job at a fast-food chain.

Wesley described his client as "very, very mentally ill" but offered no specifics. His former mother-in-law, America Holloway, said he was a schizophrenic who was constantly paranoid, blaming others for all of his woes and who always thought everyone disliked him.

SUSPECT'S MOTHER: "I'M REALLY VERY SORRY"

The suspect's own mother struggled Saturday for words to defend her son. She could only muster an apology.

"Sorry for the families involved," Ana Rodriguez said. "I'm really very sorry, it is very hurtful."

Police said Rodriguez himself also offered words of remorse as he was handcuffed Friday, explaining he was just going through a tough time. But it offered little solace to victims, all of whom worked at Reynolds, Smith and Hills, where the suspect was an entry-level engineer for 11 months before being fired in June 2007.

Eyewitness News was there when Jason Rodriguez was taken to the Orange County jail (watch video) Friday night.

VICTIM IDENTIFIED IN ORLANDO SHOOTING

Identified as the single fatality in the shooting spree was Otis Beckford, 26, the father of a 7-month-old daughter who was standing near the receptionist's desk when the gunman entered the office (pictures of the victim).

"My grandson didn't deserve to die like that," Beckford's grandmother, Deleta Earle, told Eyewitness News Saturday night.

"Otis is a very brilliant kid," she said. "He never would hurt anybody. He worked hard and dedicated to his daughter."

Beckford's mother told The Palm Beach Post that she had last talked to him Thursday night, firming up the family's Thanksgiving plans.

"Now, he won't be there," Icilda Cole told the newspaper. "Such a shame! I had two children. Otis and my daughter. I have one left. I never thought something like this would happen to him."

Five others were wounded: Gregory Hornbeck, 39; Ferrell Hickson, 40; Guy Lugenbeel, 62; Edward Severino; 34; and Keyondra Harrison; 27. All were in stable condition at Orlando hospitals and were expected to survive.

Ferrell Hickson, who was being treated at Florida Hospital, was discharged Sunday, according to a Florida Department of Transportation spokesman. The spokesman said Hickson did not want to talk publicly, but added that the father sounded very eager to get home to his family.

Several other employees reached Saturday said the firm has told them not to publicly discuss the shooting.

Police said Rodriguez told detectives he blamed the firm for recent trouble he had receiving unemployment benefits. As officers led him handcuffed into a police station Friday, WFTV reporter George Spencer asked the divorced 40-year-old why he had attacked his former colleagues.

"Because they left me to rot," said Rodriguez.

Eyewitness News talked to a friend of Rodriguez (watch interview) who says he isn't a monster.

"I couldn't believe that, that was him that would do that because he's not that type of person. He's not a monster," said friend Ricky Falco.

The Legion Place building, where the shooting occurred, remained cordoned off Saturday with police tape, though some workers returned to get purses and other belongings left behind in a scramble to escape. Courtney Moore, a paralegal on the building's 17th floor, returned for her car, and remembered frequently sharing an elevator with Beckford or seeing him in the cafeteria.

"He was always so polite and friendly," she said.

As for Rodriguez, a neighbor said he moved into his mother's apartment about six weeks ago and said his appearance had grown disheveled in recent weeks. Cassandra Mizhir said she found Rodriguez "creepy" -- whenever she sat out on her back porch to smoke a cigarette, he would stand on his nearby balcony and stare at her.

She said he would sit outside the low-slung, seafoam green building in his broken-down SUV, blasting classic rock music for hours. The vehicle remained in the parking lot Saturday, a brochure on claiming unemployment benefits lying on the passenger seat.

Eyewitness News also spoke with his former in-laws (watch interview).

"I'm not surprised that they picked him up," said Rodriguez' former father-in-law.

His ex-wife's mother, America Holloway, told The Associated Press that Rodriguez and her daughter, Neshby, were married for about 6 1/2 years before divorcing several years ago. They have an 8-year-old son who lives with Neshby in Kissimmee, about a half-hour away.

Holloway said the couple lived with her in Orlando for several years and that Rodriguez abused her daughter and once threw all her clothes into the street.

"I used to tell my daughter he was crazy," Holloway said. "He was always fighting, always yelling. There was always problems."

After the divorce, Rodriguez seldom saw his son, but he called last week while the child was at Holloway's house and the boy asked his father why he did not come over, too.

"He said, 'Because I don't have any money. I don't have a job. I don't have anything to eat. When things get better, I'll come see you,"' Holloway said Rodriguez told his son.