A 39-year-old woman, apparently upset about YouTube’s policies, shot up the video hosting company’s offices in San Bruno, California, on April 3 before shooting herself.
Nasim Najafi Aghdam, a resident of San Diego, came onto the YouTube campus and opened fire seemingly at random with a 9-mm handgun, which she later turned on herself.
Three people were treated for gunshot wounds, and one for a twisted ankle sustained while fleeing the scene.
Two of the shooting victims have been released from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. The third was still in critical condition on the morning of April 4.
According to the Post, Aghdam frequently posted videos about veganism, fitness, and animal abuse.
YouTube Manager Describe Shooting in Stream of Tweets
Todd Sherman, a YouTube project manager, described the assault in a series of tweets sent while he was leaving the YouTube campus in an Uber ride-share car.Sherman started by telling his followers that he was safe. He followed that by describing people rushing down the building’s halls towards the exits as sounding like an earthquake.
Sherman had no idea why people were running but he could tell that something serious was happening.
Then someone told him there was a person with a gun on the YouTube campus.
Sherman related that after he heard there was a shooter on the campus, he was scared to see people running by, because any one of them could have been the shooter.
As he left the building, Sherman said he saw blood pooling on the floor. He watched police cruisers rushing towards the campus and unloading officers armed with rifles.
Another employee, Vadim Lavrusik, decided not to join the throngs fleeing. Instead, he and some coworkers barricaded themselves in an office.
Lavrusik was able to escape unharmed.
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