
While her father told police later that morning that Aghdam was upset with YouTube over her videos, and might have come to the area as a result, he did not “mention anything about potential acts of violence or a possibility of Aghdam lashing out as a result of her issues with her videos,” the department said in a statement. The department described her as “calm and cooperative”, and said that “at no point during our roughly 20-minute interaction with her did she mention anything about YouTube, if she was upset with them, or that she had planned to harm herself or others.” Police in Mountain View, where Google is headquartered, confirmed that they interviewed Aghdam early in the morning before the shooting, after they found her sleeping in her car. Local law enforcement agencies are facing questions about a warning her father gave police before the shooting, including that he was concerned she was headed to YouTube’s headquarters, which is more than 500 miles from San Diego, where she lived.Ġ1:39 YouTube shooting: female suspect dead and three injured at California headquarters – video report The alleged shooter parked at a nearby business and appeared to have entered YouTube’s campus through a parking garage. A Smith & Wesson 9mm semiautomatic handgun, legally registered to Aghdam, was found at the scene.


A fourth victim had been injured, but not shot, in the incident, police said.Īghdam had visited a local gun range on Tuesday morning before going to YouTube’s headquarters, Barberini said. A third, a male in his 30s, is currently in “serious condition”, a hospital spokeswoman said Wednesday morning. Two of the three shooting victims from the incident were released from the Zuckerberg San Francisco general hospital on Tuesday night.

Police gave her age as 39 but her brother said she would have turned 38 on Wednesday. No evidence had been found linking her to any individuals at the company where she allegedly opened fire on Tuesday, he said. “This appears to be the motive for this incident.” Aghdam was “upset with the policies and practices of YouTube”, San Bruno police chief Ed Barberini said at a press conference on Wednesday.
