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Citibank Center Shooting: What We Know

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A Citi employee, Leanne Selman, 41, of Palm Harbor, was killed Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026, at the Citibank Center campus (Sabal Center) near Tampa, Florida, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says. The sheriff's office says the man responsible had threatened a law firm collecting a $2,500 debt for Citi about three hours earlier, and that the warning reached Orlando police and, shortly before noon, the sheriff's office. An armed Citi security guard shot him inside the building; he died at Tampa General Hospital. He was never charged, and we are not naming him.

What's confirmed

  1. Nov. 4, morningAfter being contacted about a court summons over a debt of about $2,500, he made threats against Citibank, saying he would bring a rifle and a bulletproof vest to its offices. (HCSO release 26-186; AP; Spectrum Bay News 9; ABC Action News)
  2. Around 9 a.m.The threat was made in a call to a law firm collecting the debt for Citi. The law firm told Citi security. (AP; FOX 13; ABC Action News)
  3. Law enforcement in Orange County worked to locate him; Orlando police issued an alert to area agencies. (HCSO release 26-186)
  4. Shortly before noon: Citibank notified the sheriff's office of a credible threat to its Tampa campus, and deputies responded. (HCSO release 26-186)
  5. 12:10 p.m.He drove from Orlando, about 90 miles, and crashed his vehicle into the campus gate. (HCSO release 26-186; AP)
  6. 12:11 p.m.The sheriff's office began receiving 911 calls. The sheriff says he shot and killed the first employee he encountered; the sheriff says there was "zero connection" between them. Deputies arrived on campus as the shooting began. (HCSO releases 26-185 and 26-186; HCSO Nov. 5 briefing)
  7. Inside the building's cafeteria, an armed Citi security guard confronted him and shot him. He was pronounced dead at Tampa General Hospital at 1:12 p.m. (HCSO release 26-185)
  8. Leanne Selman, 41, had worked at Citi for nine years as a learning advisor for Citi Security and Investigative Services. A Citi spokesperson called her "valued" and "beloved." The sheriff: "She went to work yesterday like any other day and never came home." (HCSO release 26-186; HCSO Nov. 5 briefing)
  9. More than 3,200 people were on campus. 367 deputies responded and cleared the buildings within two hours. Four other people were treated for non-life-threatening injuries and released. (HCSO releases 26-185 and 26-186)

What we don't know / what's disputed

  • The exact time of each step between the roughly 9 a.m. call and Citi's warning to the sheriff's office shortly before noon. The sheriff's office has not released it.
  • Accounts differ on Orlando police: the written release says officers saw him leave in a vehicle; the sheriff's spoken account and some outlets say officers arrived to find him already gone. We report only that Orlando police tried to find him and issued an alert.
  • What the sheriff's office's homicide investigation concludes.

What happens next

  • The sheriff's office says its homicide investigation continues. No one is charged; the man is dead. We will post an UPDATE here when the sheriff's office releases findings.

Chapters

  1. 0:00Citibank Center shooting: what we know
  2. 0:19Citibank Center threat: the $2,500 debt
  3. 0:57Citibank shooting warning: what police did
  4. 1:52Leanne Selman: who she was
  5. 2:28Citibank Center shooting: where it stands

Sources

  1. Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, release 26-185 (Nov. 4, 2026) Primary recordteamhcso.com/News/PressRelease/c1a319e4-9992-4e27-bd57-c74db6ac4ccc/en-US
  2. Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, release 26-186 (Nov. 5, 2026) Primary recordteamhcso.com/News/PressRelease/484cefde-4e2b-4566-a12e-751d0cba3d1e/en-US
  3. Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, Nov. 5 news conference Primary recordyoutube.com/watch?v=2bQt2cGNSXk
  4. Associated Press (via PBS NewsHour) Reportingpbs.org/newshour/nation/florida-sheriff-says-2-dead-including-suspect-as-witnesses-report-shooting-at-tampa-office-complex
  5. ABC Action News (WFTS) Reportingtampabay28.com/news/region-hillsborough/shooting-at-citibank-corporate-campus-sparked-by-2-500-debt-threat-made-hours-before-gunfire-sheriff-says
  6. Spectrum Bay News 9 Reportingbaynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2026/11/05/citibank-sabal-center-shooting-hillsborough-county
  7. ABC News Reportingabcnews.com/US/suspect-deadly-citibank-shooting-irate-court-summons-2500/story?id=137888575

The record · as of Nov. 6, 2026

How we know

Primary records are court and agency documents; reporting is news coverage we checked against them. How we report.

What happens next

We check these records for changes: HCSO Sabal Center homicide release; HCSO press release archive.

Verified timeline

  1. 2026-11-04Around 9 a.m., per Sheriff Chronister, the gunman (35, of Orlando; dead, never charged, NOT named) called a law office Citibank contracts for collections, angry over a court summons on a delinquent debt of about $2,500, and said he would come to the Citi offices with an AR-15 and a bulletproof vest unless the case was cancelled. Attribute: 'the sheriff says'.HCSO release 26-186; HCSO Nov. 5 briefing (YouTube 2bQt2cGNSXk) 07:15; AP via WUSF ('about three hours before'); Bay News 9; ABC News; FOX 13; WFTS
  2. 2026-11-04Per the sheriff's briefing: the law office alerted Citi's head of security (a retired Secret Service agent), who judged the threat legitimate and asked Orlando police for a welfare check; officers found the man had already left, and his wife told them he appeared angry and did not say where he was going.HCSO Nov. 5 briefing (YouTube 2bQt2cGNSXk) 08:30-09:30; FOX 13; ABC News; Bay News 9
  3. 2026-11-04Shortly before noon, Citibank notified HCSO of a credible threat to its Tampa campus; the district sent a supervisor and a deputy as a precaution. Per the sheriff, the supervisor was on the phone with Citi security, arriving on campus, when he heard gunshots ('Courtyard, courtyard').HCSO release 26-186; HCSO Nov. 5 briefing (YouTube 2bQt2cGNSXk) 09:45-10:43; WFTS; FOX 13
  4. 2026-11-0412:10 p.m.: the gunman crashed his vehicle through the courtyard gate of the Citibank Center campus (3800 Citibank Center / Sabal Center, Brandon area, unincorporated Tampa), where employees were eating lunch. AP says 'through a fence'; HCSO says gate.HCSO release 26-186; HCSO Nov. 5 briefing (YouTube 2bQt2cGNSXk) 10:43; AP via WUSF; WFTS; FOX 13; ABC News
  5. 2026-11-0412:11 p.m.: he opened fire, killing an employee, Leanne Selman, 41, of Palm Harbor; per the sheriff she was the first Citi employee he saw, with no connection to him. Pronounced dead at the scene. (One plain attributed sentence only; shot counts / weapon sequence stay out per depiction gate.)HCSO release 26-186; HCSO Nov. 5 briefing (YouTube 2bQt2cGNSXk) 10:53, Q&A; AP via WUSF; WFTS; Bay News 9; ABC News
  6. 2026-11-0412:11 p.m.: the HCSO 911 center began receiving shots-fired calls; the first marked HCSO unit arrived within one minute and deputies went into the building.HCSO release 26-185; HCSO release 26-186 ('deputies arrived on campus as the shooting began'); FOX 13 ('gunfire erupted moments after their arrival')
  7. 2026-11-04Within about a minute, an armed Citi security officer (a Citi vice president, Marine veteran; named by HCSO but role-only for us) confronted the gunman in the building's cafeteria and shot him (five times, per the sheriff). The gunman had 90 rounds with him, per the sheriff.HCSO release 26-185; HCSO release 26-186; HCSO Nov. 5 briefing (YouTube 2bQt2cGNSXk) 13:27; AP via WUSF; WFTS; FOX 13; ABC News
  8. 2026-11-0412:24 p.m.: the gunman was taken to Tampa General Hospital (HCSO 26-185 only); pronounced dead there at 1:12 p.m. (both HCSO releases; outlets say 'died at a hospital').HCSO release 26-185; HCSO release 26-186; AP via WUSF; FOX 13; Bay News 9
  9. 2026-11-04More than 3,200 people were on campus (the sheriff: the campus has about 5,000 employees on rotation). Citi's campus = four three-story office buildings (AP). ABC News's '9,500 employees' is an outlier; do not use.HCSO release 26-185; HCSO release 26-186; HCSO Nov. 5 briefing (YouTube 2bQt2cGNSXk) 11:50; AP via WUSF; WFTS; FOX 13
  10. 2026-11-04Response: 367 HCSO deputies (SWAT, Aviation, Drone, K9) plus local/state/federal partners, 400+ law-enforcement personnel; buildings cleared within two hours. Bay News 9 rounds to 'more than 360'; the release quote says 'more than 365'.HCSO release 26-185; HCSO Nov. 5 briefing (YouTube 2bQt2cGNSXk) 13:43; Bay News 9
  11. 2026-11-04Four other people were hurt during the evacuation (a cut lip, scrapes from a fall, chest pains, a pregnant woman checked as a precaution); all treated and released. Non-life-threatening.HCSO release 26-186; FOX 13; ABC News; Bay News 9
  12. 2026-11-048:10 p.m.: HCSO release 26-185 announces a homicide investigation, names no one; sheriff: the victim 'was killed by an individual who was intent on killing as many people as possible.' Asks for public video at videos@teamhcso.com.HCSO release 26-185; AP via PBS NewsHour (same-day report)
  13. 2026-11-05The victim's name is spelled Leanne Selman, 41 (HCSO release 26-186 and HCSO's on-screen memorial card at its Nov. 5 briefing); Bay News 9, CNN and ABC Action News match.HCSO release 26-186; HCSO briefing 17:42; Bay News 9; CNN; WFTS
  14. 2026-11-05Per HCSO's Nov. 5 release: Orlando police saw him leave a complex in a vehicle and issued an alert to area agencies; shortly before noon Citibank notified HCSO of a credible threat and deputies immediately responded; 12:10 p.m. he crashed into the campus gate; 12:11 p.m. he opened fire, killing an employee; deputies arrived as the shooting began.HCSO release 26-186; ABC News (Citi head of security called HCSO); CNN
  15. 2026-11-05Selman's job per HCSO: Learning Advisor for Citi Security and Investigative Services, 9 years at Citibank (outlets' 'human resources' is not in the HCSO release).HCSO release 26-186; FOX 13; WFTS
  16. 2026-11-05HCSO names the victim as Leanne Selman, 41, a Citi employee of 9 years (Learning Advisor, Citi Security and Investigative Services); spelling 'Leanne' per HCSO release 26-186 and the HCSO memorial card shown at the Nov. 5 briefingHCSO release 26-186; HCSO memorial card (asset #984); AP; Bay News 9; ABC Action News
  17. 2026-11-05Thursday afternoon news conference: Sheriff Chronister reads the threat verbatim, names the victim, the gunman (35, Orlando, married, a 7-year-old child, no criminal record) and the guard, calls it targeted at the company over the debt, says Selman had 'zero connection' to him, and shows HCSO video (bodycam / campus footage). A Citi representative: 'She was valued. She was beloved.'HCSO Nov. 5 briefing (YouTube 2bQt2cGNSXk); AP via WUSF (published 3:57 p.m.); Bay News 9 (2:10 p.m.); WFTS; ABC News; FOX 13
  18. 2026-11-054:16 p.m.: HCSO release 26-186 with the full timeline and the victim's name ('Leanne Selman, 41 ... Learning Advisor for Citi Security and Investigative Services, 9 years'). 'This remains an active investigation.'HCSO release 26-186
  19. 2026-11-05HCSO released bodycam/campus video (deputies crossing campus, clearing a stairwell, evacuating employees). Outlets also report 911 calls were released; we have not seen HCSO's own 911 posting (and 911 audio is OUT for us regardless: distress).HCSO Nov. 5 briefing (YouTube 2bQt2cGNSXk); FOX 13; CNN headline ('bodycam footage released'); ABC News headline ('New 911 calls and bodycam video')
  20. 2026-11-05STATUS: no one has been charged; the gunman is dead, so there is no criminal case. HCSO calls it an active homicide investigation. Unknowns per FOX 13: how he obtained the guns.HCSO release 26-186; FOX 13

Also in our research file

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