Friends honor victim of Citibank shooting

The force on stage and will be deeply missed. Well, the performing arts community around Tampa Bay is remembering the woman who was senselessly killed in that Citibank shooting last week, Leanne Sillman. She was supposed to dance in an annual performance this weekend. Fox 13's Carly Jones tells us how they're keeping the fire burning in Leanne's memory. Well, Leanne was supposed to be lighting up this stage at Sacred Lands here in St. Pete this weekend. Instead, a small fire burned next to the stage, lighting up a memorial in her memory. From the corporate office, 41-year-old Leanne Selman held a spot in many different groups. Leanne was a learning advisor at Citibank in Hillsborough County. She also lit up the stage for decades, fire dancing, belly dancing, hula hooping. Leanne was supposed to perform in an annual tribal burn at Sacred Lands in St. Pete on Saturday, but last week she was killed in a heartless shooting on Citibank's campus. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says the gunman crashed his car onto the property, got out and started firing. Leanne just happened to be eating lunch outside. Leanne's friends in the performing arts community say she inspired them by igniting her own Boxes are for products not people. You can be a rock star at your job and you can put on a crazy costume and fire dance on the weekends. I think all of us are multifaceted. Leanne is a prime example of somebody who ran in a bunch of different circles and brought value to every single one of them. And I think more people need to live their authenticity in that way. Through their grief, Leanne's friends made sure the show went on this past weekend because they knew that's what Leanne would have wanted. On Monday, they all wore red flowers in her memory. So the red flower we have taken on as a symbol for many years of the beauty and fragility of this world. It represents how much we should celebrate life, how much we should celebrate and bring creativity and art into the world. Because it's only temporary. Kylie Jones, Fox 13 News. Today's city said it is donating $250,000 to the Community Foundation Tampa Bay for the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Fund in Leanne's honor. The fund will support local artists and performers.