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Bodycam captures Tampa bank campus evacuation after shooting kills two
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Newly released bodycam footage shows officers responding to the shooting at Citi’s Tampa campus and evacuating workers, including people leaving with their hands raised. The footage captures the urgency of the response and officers reporting that the shooter was down.
The shooting left a female employee and the gunman dead, while four other people suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Police said a Citi security guard fatally shot the gunman; his relationship to the victim remains unclear. Some 367 Hillsborough County deputies responded, and all rooms were evacuated from a campus with about 3,200 people.
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In short
- Bodycam footage shows officers arriving and evacuating Citi employees.
- Two people died and four were injured.
- Police say a Citi security guard shot the gunman.
How this story developed
- 48 minutes ago A shooting at Citi’s Tampa campus left a female employee and the gunman dead, while four other people were treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
- 1 hour ago Newly released bodycam footage shows officers responding to the shooting at Citi’s Tampa campus and evacuating workers, including people leaving with their hands raised. The footage captures the urgency of the response and officers reporting that the shooter was down.
- 2 hours ago A gunman entered a Citi campus in Tampa, Florida, on Wednesday, killing a female worker before an armed Citi security guard shot him dead. Newly released bodycam footage shows employees fleeing as deputies arrived, then officers evacuating the building.
Full account
Police bodycam footage has revealed the response to a shooting at a Citibank campus in Tampa, Florida, on Wednesday. Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived shortly after reports of gunfire at around midday. In the footage, a caller tells emergency services that someone is shooting inside the office complex, while deputies ask people outside what they heard and where the gunfire came from.
The video shows officers moving towards the building and reporting that a car had crashed nearby. One deputy says the suspected gunman is inside; another later radios that the shooter is down. Officers then guide employees out of the building, some with their hands raised as instructed, and direct them to a separate area. Authorities said they searched and evacuated the building with help from a SWAT team. The campus has about 3,200 people, according to the reports.
Police said a female employee was shot after a man got out of a car carrying a rifle. An armed security guard at the site shot the suspect, who later died in hospital. Four other people were injured; authorities described their injuries as non-life-threatening but did not provide further details. The victim has not been publicly identified, and investigators have not established whether she knew the suspect or what prompted the attack.
The reports describe a large emergency response, with more than 365 deputies attending, and quote the sheriff’s office praising the security guard’s intervention. A witness quoted in one account said she saw a car enter the campus courtyard area and ran inside to find her sister, who also worked there. Officials said the investigation was still developing and characterised the day as tragic for those affected.
Where outlets differ
From the full account, which is AI-written from the sources:
The first report focuses on the bodycam sequence and employee evacuation, and says 367 deputies responded. The second gives a more specific timeline, saying dispatchers received calls at 12:11pm and deputies arrived within a minute; it also describes the car crashing through a fence and into tables, based on a witness account.
The accounts use different descriptions of the suspect: the first refers to a tall, bearded man in an unzipped sweatshirt in social-media footage, while the second calls him shirtless and obese. These descriptions are not reconciled in the reports.
The first report relays a New York Post account that the incident may have involved a vendor rather than Citi employees. The second does not mention that possibility and instead foregrounds a witness’s account and the security guard’s response.
Explained simply
Citi is a major international bank, and its Tampa campus is a large workplace with about 3,200 people. A shooting there prompted a response from Hillsborough County deputies, the local law enforcement agency, and led a nearby college to tell people to shelter in place.
The sheriff’s office said a female employee and the gunman died, and four other people were treated for injuries that were not life-threatening. Police said an armed Citi security guard shot the gunman; they have not established his relationship to the employee. The investigation is ongoing.
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Originally published by Daily Mail as “Nightmarish bodycam shows aftermath of Florida bank shooting that left two dead”.