ORANGE COUNTY, Fla.,None — Nearly 24 hours later, there are still many questions surrounding a murder-suicide outside an Orange County office park. A man shot and killed a woman in the parking lot of the AT&T call center near Alafaya Trail and the University of Central Florida (see map) Monday afternoon in the Central Florida Research Park. The man then turned the gun on himself.
Tuesday afternoon, security guards were at both entrances to the AT&T call center and grief counselors were there for any co-workers of the victim who might need to talk out their feelings.
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A security guard was on patrol in the AT&T call center parking lot Monday night and Orange County homicide detectives took a 2001 Ford Expedition into evidence, along with several bullet casings that were scattered across the parking lot. The tag shows the SUV is registered to 61-year-old Roger Troy of Cocoa Beach.
An AT&T customer service employee was shot and killed; investigators say she was in her late 20s and was on her way back to work after lunch at the time of the shooting. According to officers, the gunman, who shot her several times and then turned the gun on himself, was about 30 years older than she was.
The woman was married to another worker at the call center. It is not known whether the victim and gunman knew one another.
Another worker in the area heard the shots and performed CPR on the woman until paramedics arrived.
"We could actually hear the gunshots," call center employee Azuree Gibbs said. "We're used to the construction over here, so we thought it was the construction going on."
There are more than 100 companies in the research park and nearly 10,000 employees were all put in potential danger.
"It's frightening, very frightening," Research Park employee Nadine Dexter said.
Security cameras are installed on top of the AT&T building and Orange County detectives want to see if they show what happened in the moments leading up to the shooting.
Investigators are not saying why they took the Ford Expedition into evidence, but records show the owner, Roger Troy, was due in court one week from Tuesday for an injunction hearing after a complaint was filed on the first of February by Alyssa Blanton of Cocoa.
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