Ex-Employee Kills Two in Baton Rouge

(CNN) -- Two people are dead and one person is suffering life-threatening injuries after a former employee walked into a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, construction company office and opened fire, sheriff's officials said.

A suspect was taken into custody after the construction company's yard foreman wrestled him to the ground.

The suspect came into the Grady Crawford Construction Co. office and began shooting, hitting three people, said Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Casey Rayborn Hicks. The first 911 call came at 1:52 p.m. and officers were on the scene two minutes later, he said.

Hicks identified the suspect as Richard Matthews, 53, of Slaughter, Louisiana.

After the shooting, the suspect "came out of the business and the yard foreman wrestled him to the ground and got the gun away from him," Hicks said.

Matthews has been transported to the sheriff's office in downtown Baton Rouge, Hicks said.

As he was escorted in for questioning, in response to a reporter's question about the shooting, the suspect replied numerous times: "I couldn't get my unemployment, they wouldn't give me my unemployment."