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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: SVPete on November 07, 2026, 10:29:18 AM
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Mass Shooting at Citibank Tampa Campus Stopped by a Marine With a Gun
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/11/06/mass-shooting-at-citibank-tampa-campus-stopped-by-a-marine-with-a-gun-n3820738 (https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/11/06/mass-shooting-at-citibank-tampa-campus-stopped-by-a-marine-with-a-gun-n3820738)
A $2,500 credit card collections bill started it.
Thirty-five-year-old Jacob Pearson of Orlando received a sheriff's court summons over a delinquent Citibank credit card account. His response was to call Citibank's collections attorney. While demanding the debt be canceled, he issued a threat - he would shortly be at their location at the sprawling Citibank Hillsborough County corporate campus, with his weapons 'and my insanity.'
...During the phone call, investigators said Pearson gave the collection firm an ultimatum, warning that he was armed and prepared to kill if the court summons was not dismissed.
The sheriff said Pearson told the office: "Unless you want me to go over there with my AR-15, my bulletproof vest and my insanity, you mf’ing cancel this court case. Do you understand me? They are only an hour and three minutes away, so the last thing you want to do is f with me."
Citibank's head of security, a retired Secret Service agent, treated the warning as an active threat and notified authorities. Officers with the Orlando Police Department went to Pearson's home for a welfare check, but his wife told officers he had already left while visibly angry without revealing his destination.
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When Pearson arrived, he didn't park. He blew through the campus gate, his car barreling into the open-air seating where many of the employees were at tables, enjoying a break or eating under the umbrellas.
Pearson hopped out of his vehicle and immediately shot 41-year-old LeAnne Selman, a long-time Citibank HR employee beloved by her fellow workers. He hit her three times before his weapon malfunctioned.
As the gravely injured woman tried desperately to crawl away, Pearson walked back to his car, pulled a handgun out, and returned to cold-bloodedly execute her.
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Unnoticed, one man had run toward the shooting and established a tactical position in the doorway of the men's room after getting a bead on the shooter's position.
That man's name is John Fraley. He's a member of Citibank's security team, but also a vice president of Citibank security operations, and a Marine Corps veteran.
He was determined, as Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister would later relate, that 'this would end here.'
Thankfully, Prog bank-haters won't be creating a defense for Worm-Food Pearson.