ORLANDO, Fla., (Reuters) – A gunman opened fire  inside a high-rise office building in Orlando, Florida, yesterday, killing one person and wounding five others, the mayor  and the local police chief said.

The suspected gunman, who fled the Gateway Center building  in downtown Orlando after the incident, was later apprehended  at his mother’s home, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and Police Chief  Val Demmings told reporters.

“There is one confirmed fatality,” Demmings said. Local  media had earlier reported two people killed in the shooting.

The shooting, coming a day after a mass shooting at a U.S.  army base in Texas which killed 13 people, caused panic in and  around the Orlando office building as armed police moved in and  evacuated workers.

Orlando police said the 40-year-old suspect was a former  employee at the office of an engineering and architecture  company in the building who had returned to the location and  started firing.