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Nasim Aghdam ‘hated’ YouTube, father says he warned police morning of shooting
04 April 2018 IST
Nasim Aghdam ‘hated’ YouTube, father says he warned police morning of shooting

The father of the YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam said he had reported his daughter missing after she didn’t respond to his calls for two days. He says he later warned police she might go to YouTube’s office when she was found sleeping in her car.

 
 

A woman suspected of shooting three people at YouTube headquarters before killing herself was furious with the company because it had stopped paying her for videos she posted on the platform, her father said late on Tuesday.
 
Two law enforcement officials identified the suspect as Nasim Aghdam of Southern California. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.
 
YouTube had “stopped everything,” and “she was angry,” her father Ismail Aghdam said from his San Diego home in a telephone interview with the Bay Area News Group.
 
People who post on YouTube can receive money from advertisements that accompany their videos, but the company “de-monetizes” some channels for reasons including inappropriate material or having fewer than 1,000 subscribers.
 
Ismail Aghdam said he reported his daughter missing on Monday after she did not answer her phone for two days.
 
He said the family received a call from Mountain View police around 2 am on Tuesday saying they found Nasim sleeping in a car.
 
He said he warned them she might be headed to YouTube because she “hated” the company.
 
Mountain View Police spokeswoman Katie Nelson confirmed officers located a woman by the same name asleep in a vehicle asleep in a Mountain View parking lot Tuesday morning. Nelson said the woman declined to answer further questions but the police spokeswoman did not respond to a question about whether police were warned Aghdam might go to YouTube.
 
Authorities said earlier Tuesday that the shooting was being investigated as a domestic dispute.
 
‘All YouTube employees were victims’
 
Terrified employees huddled inside, calling 911, as officers and federal agents swarmed the company’s suburban campus sandwiched between two interstate freeways in the San Francisco Bay Area city of San Bruno.
 
YouTube employee Dianna Arnspiger said she was on the building’s second floor when she heard gunshots, ran to a window and saw the shooter on a patio outside.
 
She said the woman wore glasses and a scarf and was using a “big huge pistol”.
 
“It was a woman and she was firing her gun. And I just said, ‘Shooter,’ and everybody started running,” Arnspiger said.
 
She and others hid in a conference room for an hour while another employee repeatedly called 911 for updates.
 
“It was terrifying,” she said.
 
A 36-year-old man was in critical condition, a 32-year-old woman was in serious condition and a 27-year-old woman was in fair condition, a spokesman for San Francisco General Hospital said.
 
Witnesses described terror before officers arrived and discovered a victim near a front door and then found the shooter several minutes later with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini said.
 
He said two additional gunshot victims were found at an adjacent business minutes later. Barberini initially said there were four people who had been shot but later clarified that a fourth person had suffered an ankle injury.
 
 
Zach Vorhies, 37, a senior software engineer at YouTube, said he was at his desk working on the second floor of one of the buildings when the fire alarm went off. He got on his skateboard and approached a courtyard, where he saw the shooter yelling, “‘Come at me, or come get me.’“
 
He saw somebody lying nearby on his back with a red stain on his stomach that appeared to be from a bullet wound. Vorhies said he realized there was an active shooter when a police officer with an assault rifle came through a security door.
 
He said the public can access the courtyard where he saw the shooter during work hours.
 
Google, which owns the world’s biggest online video website, said the company’s security team worked with authorities to evacuate buildings and was doing whatever it could support the victims and their families.
 
YouTube’s headquarters has more than a thousand engineers and other employees in several buildings. Originally built in the late 1990s for the clothing retailer Gap, the campus south of San Francisco is known for its sloped green roof of native grasses.
 
Inside, Google famously outfitted the office several years ago with a three-lane red slide for workers to zoom from one story to another.
 
“Today it feels like the entire community of YouTube, all of the employees, were victims of this crime,” said Chris Dale, a YouTube spokesman. “Our hearts go out to all those who suffered.”
 
The White House said President Donald Trump was briefed on the shooting and that officials were monitoring developments.

 
 
 
 
 

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Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
2 hours ago

Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
2 hours ago

Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
2 hours ago

Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST


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