Police say they have no details about motive in attack at company’s California headquarters as victims are treated at nearby hospital

A shooting at YouTube’s California headquarters left at least three people wounded and a female suspect dead of an apparent suicide, police said Tuesday.



The San Bruno police chief, Ed Barberini, said during a news conference that police had responded to 911 calls from the Silicon Valley tech campus and discovered a woman, whom they believed to be the shooter, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Barberini did not release any information about a possible motive or the suspect’s identity, though late on Tuesday officials briefed local media that she was Nasim Najafi Aghdam, who was in her late 30s.

Barberini said the attack was carried out with a handgun and that there was no further threat to the public.

Four people were transported to local hospitals, police said, including three with gunshot wounds. The three are being treated at San Francisco General hospital, a spokesman confirmed, including a 36-year-old man in critical condition and a 32-year-old woman in serious condition. It was not immediately clear where the fourth victim was being treated and in what condition.



A female shooter is a rarity; an FBI study of 160 “active shooter” incidents between 2000 and 2013 found that only six incidents, or 3.8%, were perpetrated by a female shooter.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Police operate outside the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno. Photograph: John G. Mabanglo/EPA

News of the shooting initially spread on social media as YouTube employees posted about barricading themselves inside rooms as police and ambulances arrived at the scene.



“Heard shots and saw people running while at my desk. Now barricaded inside a room with coworkers,” Vadim Lavrusik, a YouTube employee, posted to Twitter.

A YouTube employee, Michael Ho, told the Guardian he was on the phone with his wife in an open-floor-plan area when he saw people running. “At first I wasn’t sure if it was something they were doing for fun,” he said, before noticing looks of panic on people’s faces.

Zach Vorhies, a senior software engineer at YouTube, told the Guardian that he was at his desk when the fire alarm went off. As he passed through an interior courtyard between the main building and the parking garage he saw a man on the ground with what appeared to be a bullet wound to the stomach. He said he heard a voice he assumed to be the shooter’s shout “come and get me!” and saw police with assault weapons responding.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Susan Wojcicki, YouTube’s CEO, exits the building after the shooting was reported. Photograph: Chris Roberts/The Guardian

A project manager, Todd Sherman, said he was sitting in a meeting when he heard people running to leave the building. Upon exiting the room he saw “blood drips on the floor and stairs” and heard people say there was a potential shooter before he managed to escape the building.

“Police cruisers pull up, hopped out with rifles ready and I told them where the situation was as I headed down the street to meet up with a couple team members,” he said.

Aerial footage shot by CBS News showed staff leaving the building with their hands in the air. Offices of other companies nearby were also on lockdown.

By late afternoon, the steady stream of employees leaving YouTube’s hilltop campus in San Bruno, a mostly residential suburb of San Francisco, had ceased. Among the last to leave was the chief executive, Susan Wojcicki, who was flanked by security and did not stop to speak to reporters.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest YouTube employees are seen walking away from company’s headquarters after the shooting. Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters

Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of YouTube’s parent company, Google, said in an email to staff the shooting an “unimaginable tragedy” and that the company was working to support the victims and their families. Other tech company executives, including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, sent messages of support on Twitter, with some, including Uber’s Dara Khosrowshahi, calling for an end to gun violence.

Chris Dale, YouTube’s global head of communications, appeared at an afternoon press conference with police where he expressed “a debt of gratitude” to officers and first responders.

“We are an incredibly tight knit community within YouTube, where it feels like a family,” Dale said. “Today, it feels like the entire community of YouTube and all of the employees were victims of this crime.”

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Donald Trump, who was criticized for his slow response to the 14 February mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 students and teachers dead, commented on the shooting on Twitter.

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) Was just briefed on the shooting at YouTube’s HQ in San Bruno, California. Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody involved. Thank you to our phenomenal Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders that are currently on the scene.

Andre Campbell, a trauma surgeon who is treating three of the gunshot victims at San Francisco General hospital, expressed his frustration at a press conference: “Once again we are confronted with the specter of a mass casualty situation in the county of San Francisco. You would think that after Las Vegas, Parkland, the Pulse nightclub shooting, that we’d see an end to this but we have not.

“Gun violence happens every day in the United States. We’ve got a serious problem we need to address. I don’t have all the answers but at least we need discussion about it nationally.”

The shooting comes during a renewed debate over American gun control laws, following the Parkland shooting . Hundreds of thousands of Americans demonstrated for stricter gun laws on 24 March in Washington and across the country.



With Republicans in Congress blocking any new gun control legislation, much of the activism after the Parkland shooting has shifted to the private sector, with calls for boycotts and corporate action. When a Fox News host tweeted disparagingly about a Parkland activist not getting into his top colleges, the 17-year-old successfully called for advertisers to boycott her show.



YouTube is one of the companies that introduced new policies after the Parkland shooting. In late March, it quietly debuted restrictions on some gun-related video content, Bloomberg News reported. The National Shooting Sports Foundation, which represents gun manufacturers, called the new policy “worrisome” in a statement to Bloomberg News in late March.

YouTube has also come under scrutiny for the way its platforms have been used after mass shootings to spread conspiracy theories that mass shootings are hoaxes perpetrated to advance gun control and that grieving survivors and family members of shooting victims who appear in the media are “crisis actors”.</s>(KGTV) - The following timeline details the events that occurred before, during an after the shooting at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno.

 

 

 

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• YouTube shooter was at gun range prior to HQ shooting</s>SAN BRUNO, Calif. (Reuters) - A woman opened fire at YouTube’s headquarters near San Francisco on Tuesday, wounding at least three people before taking her own life, as employees of the video website scrambled into the surrounding streets for safety.

Police did not release any further information on the suspect or comment on her possible motives for the shooting rampage at the Silicon Valley offices of YouTube, a service owned by Alphabet Inc’s Google.

The shooting had no known connection to terrorism, a U.S. government security official told Reuters.

A YouTube product manager, Todd Sherman, described on Twitter hearing people running, first thinking it was an earthquake before he was told that a person had a gun.

“At that point every new person I saw was a potential shooter. Someone else said that the person shot out the back doors and then shot themselves,” Sherman said on Twitter.

“I looked down and saw blood drips on the floor and stairs. Peaked around for threats and then we headed downstairs and out the front,” Sherman said.

Responding to the report of gunfire, police officers entered the building and located at least four people with gunshots, San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini said at a news conference. One of them, a woman with a self-inflicted wound, was dead, he said, and she was believed to be the shooter.

One of the victims, a 36-year-old man, was listed in critical condition at San Francisco General Hospital. A 32-year-old woman was listed in serious condition and a 27-year-old woman in fair condition. Authorities did not release names of the victims.

Google said on Twitter that it was coordinating with local authorities. YouTube Chief Executive Susan Wojcicki declined to comment to reporters as she left the building.

President Donald Trump said on Twitter that he had been briefed on the shooting.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody involved,” Trump tweeted. “Thank you to our phenomenal Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders that are currently on the scene.”

Dozens of emergency vehicles quickly converged on the YouTube campus, and police could be seen on televised aerial video systematically frisking several employees leaving the area with their hands raised.

Last month, YouTube announced it would ban content promoting the sale of guns and gun accessories as well as videos that teach how to make guns.

Female mass shooters are rare. A recent Washington Post analysis shows only three out of 150 U.S. shootings with more than four victims since 1966 were done by women. In 2015, a husband and wife killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California.</s>San Bruno Police have confirmed reports of an “active shooter” near YouTube headquarters after alarms of gunfire. Police officers tweeted out a warning to stay away from Cherry Ave and Bay Hill Drive, where the Google owned building is located. The female shooter is now understood to have died of “self-inflicted” wounds after shooting herboyfriend, police have said. YouTube’s parent company Google said on Twitter it was coordinating with the authorities in regards to the incident.

Google Communications tweeted: “Re: YouTube situation, we are coordinating with authorities and will provide official information here from Google and YouTube as it becomes available.” San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini arrived on the scene at 2.30pm local time for an official briefing. Several YouTube employees took to social media to share the harrowing details of the incident. Project Manager Todd Sherman tweeted: “We were sitting in a meeting and then we heard people running because it was rumbling the floor. First thought was earthquake. “After existing the room we still didn’t know what was going on but more people were running. Seemed serious and not like a drill.

“We headed towards the exit and then saw more people and someone said that there was a person with a gun. S***.

He added: “I looked down and saw blood drips on the floor and stairs. Peaked around for threats and then we headed downstairs and out the front.” According to local reports several wounded people are being treated at hospital. A crowd of people leaving the complex int he aftermath of the shooting were intercepted by scores of armed police officers who patted them down for weapons. Aerial footage captured at YouTube HQ shows staff leaving the building with their hands in the air.

YouTube HQ is located across a few buildings on the intersection of Cherry Ave and Bay Hill Drive in San Bruno, south of San Francisco. The YouTube buildings are separate to Google’s corporate headquarters, known as the Googleplex, in Mountain View near the beating heart of Silicon valley in San Jose. San bruno sits just between between South San Francisco and Millbrae, roughly 12 km south of downtown San Francisco. YouTube HQ is a building campus near San Francisco airport and is at the centre of the video giants operations.</s>SAN BRUNO, Calif. - A woman opened fire with a handgun at YouTube's headquarters near San Francisco on Tuesday, wounding three people before shooting herself dead as employees of the Silicon Valley tech company fled into the surrounding streets, authorities said.

Police did not identify the suspect or say what might have motivated the shooting rampage at YouTube, a video-sharing service owned by Alphabet Inc's Google.

But MSNBC reported that investigators believe a woman in her 30s approached an outdoor patio and dining courtyard on the campus around lunchtime and began to fire before entering the building.

Senior law enforcement officials believe the shooting stemmed from a domestic dispute, MSNBC and other media reported.

A US government security official told Reuters there was no known connection to terrorism.

A YouTube product manager, Todd Sherman, described on Twitter hearing people running, first thinking it was an earthquake before he was told that a person had a gun.

"At that point every new person I saw was a potential shooter. Someone else said that the person shot out the back doors and then shot themselves," Sherman said in a tweet.

"I looked down and saw blood drips on the floor and stairs. Peaked around for threats and then we headed downstairs and out the front," Sherman said.

The shooting was the latest in a string of mass killings carried out in the United States in recent years. Most recently, the massacre of 17 people at a Florida high school has led to calls for tighter restrictions on gun ownership.

In a recording of a 911 call posted online by the Los Angeles Times, a dispatcher can be heard saying: "Shooter. Another party said they spotted someone with a gun. Suspect came from the back patio ... Again we have a report of a subject with a gun. They heard seven or eight shots being fired."

Dozens of emergency vehicles quickly converged on the YouTube campus, and police could be seen on televised aerial video systematically frisking several employees leaving the area with their hands raised.

One of the victims, a 36-year-old man, was listed in critical condition at San Francisco General Hospital.

A 32-year-old woman was listed in serious condition and a 27-year-old woman in fair condition. Authorities did not release names of the victims.

The three patients taken to San Francisco General Hospital were all awake, Dr. Andre Campbell, a trauma surgeon at the hospital, said at a news conference.

All three people were victims of gunshot wounds, Campbell said, but none of them had undergone surgery.

A fourth person was taken to a local hospital with an ankle injury from fleeing the scene.

YouTube Chief Executive Susan Wojcicki declined to comment to reporters as she left the building.

"It's with great sadness that I tell you - based on the latest information - four people were injured in this horrific act of violence," Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said in letter to employees that was posted on Twitter.

"I know a lot of you are in shock right now. Over the coming days, we will continue to provide support to help everyone in our Google family heal from this unimaginable tragedy," he added.

In a separate tweet, Pichai said he and Wojcicki were"focused on supporting our employees & the @YouTube community through this difficult time together."

President Donald Trump said on Twitter that he had been briefed on the shooting.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody involved," Trump tweeted. "Thank you to our phenomenal Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders that are currently on the scene."

In response, Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey tweeted: "We can't keep being reactive to this, thinking and praying it won't happen again at our schools, jobs, or our community spots. It's beyond time to evolve our policies."

Last month, YouTube announced it would ban content promoting the sale of guns and gun accessories as well as videos that teach how to make guns.

Female mass shooters are rare. A recent Washington Post analysis shows only three out of 150 US shootings with more than four victims since 1966 were done by women. In 2015, a husband and wife killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California.</s>A gunman is said to have opened fire at the headquarters of video streaming giant YouTube in San Bruno, California. Employees of the company have shared on their Twitter stories of gunshots and them running away. Vadim Lavrusik who works on the product team wrote: Active shooter at YouTube HQ. Heard shots and saw people running […]

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This post was syndicated from BellaNaija. Click here to read the full text on the original website.</s>A shooting at YouTube's headquarters involved a white female shooting suspect at the campus with 1,700 employees.

Police officers were spotted running in the direction of YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, California, as seen in the above photo from Tuesday, April 3. SWAT vehicles were seen as well. Authorities received multiple calls of an active shooter at YouTube headquarters, as reported by KRON4.

The reports of an active shooter at the headquarters of YouTube happened as several calls came in to 911 about the event, located at 901 Cherry Avenue. As seen on the Twitter account of the San Bruno Police‏, a tweet noted that there was “police activity at 901 Cherry Ave, please stay out of the area.”

According to ABC News, the suspected shooter is a white adult female. There are currently at least four or five patients being treated at local area hospitals. Video of the event was reportedly captured, as police brought people out of YouTube with their hands raised, because they hadn’t yet reportedly determined the shooter. One victim who had been shot in her foot left the YouTube headquarters and ran into a nearby eatery with her injury.

Witnesses report hearing 15 shots fired, followed by a break in shooting and then hearing approximately 15 more gunshots. It’s not clear if the 30 shots heard by witnesses were shots from the active shooter alone, or a mixture of authorities engaging in gunfire with the active shooter at YouTube’s headquarters.

The total amount of victims is not yet known — nor is the identity of the active shooter. It also isn’t known if the YouTube shooter is in custody.

The YouTube campus has been closed as authorities investigate the shooting that happened on Tuesday, April 3, at approximately 12:52 p.m. local time.

The FBI is monitoring the situation and the ATF is reporting that they will be assisting police in the matter.

The YouTube shooting has caused a furor of tweets to be published after YouTube employees reportedly barricaded themselves inside the building as they waited for police to evacuate the building. ABC News reports that YouTube workers were instructed not to use their cell phones during the shooting.

The fact that the YouTube shooter is a female shooter is being viewed as unique, since most shooters in recent memory have been male.

More videos regarding the YouTube shooting can be viewed on Twitter.</s>A suspect is dead and several people are injured after a shooting Tuesday at YouTube's headquarters in Northern California sent employees fleeing for their lives.Here is what we know about how the shooting unfolded.The suspect, 39-year-old Nasim Aghdam of San Diego, who had been reported missing by her family, was found asleep in a car in a parking lot in Mountain View, California, the morning of the shooting.Mountain View is about 30 miles away from San Bruno, where the shooting took place, police said.Officers made contact with her in that parking lot because her license plate matched "that of a missing person out of Southern California," police said."The woman confirmed her identity to us and answered subsequent questions," police said, adding that "her family was notified that she had been located."That morning Aghdam also went to a local gun range, police said today.The San Bruno Police Department received "numerous" 911 calls about a shooting at YouTube's headquarters, said San Bruno City Manager Connie Jackson.San Bruno police officers arrived at YouTube two minutes later and began combing the area for a suspect as employees fled, said Jackson.As officers entered they found one victim at the front of the building with an apparent gunshot wound, Jackson said.Officers searching the building found the suspect dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, Jackson said.The shooting left four victims hospitalized: three with gunshot wounds and one with an ankle injury from running from the scene, police said.Meanwhile, officers worked to clear the scene. They patted down the fleeing YouTube employees and conducted a room-by-room search. Authorities later said there was no immediate threat to the community.Aghdam appears to have carried out the shooting because she was "upset" with YouTube's "policies and practices," authorities said today.Aghdam's brother also told ABC affiliate KGTV in San Diego that she "had a problem with YouTube.""I didn't know she has a gun, I thought that maybe she was going to start a fight or something," he said."There are no words to describe how horrible it was to have an active shooter today," YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki tweeted on Tuesday."Our deepest gratitude to law enforcement & first responders for their rapid response," she said. "Our hearts go out to all those injured & impacted today. We will come together to heal as a family."</s>SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) >> Police and federal agents converged Tuesday on YouTube’s headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area after receiving numerous reports of a shooting. A hospital said it received four or five patients without providing further details.

Police in the city of San Bruno said there was an active shooter but did not immediately provide more information. Multiple 911 calls reported gunfire, and police and fire officials swarmed the area, City Manager Connie Jackson said.

Television news footage showed people leaving the building in a line, holding their arms in the air for police to inspect as they were leaving the building.

Officers patted down people to make sure none had weapons, and police vehicles surrounded the area. Northern California’s Stanford Hospital said it has received four to five patients, but a hospital spokeswoman did not have information on their conditions or their wounds.

Google, which owns the world’s biggest online video website, posted on Twitter that the company is coordinating with authorities. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also said it responded to the shooting at YouTube’s suburban campus.

YouTube employee Vadim Lavrusik posted on Twitter that he heard gunshots and saw people running. He said he was barricaded in a room with his co-workers before being safely evacuated.

Will Hudson said a friend who works for YouTube texted him about the shooter.

“I think there might be a shooter in my building,” read one text. “The fire alarm went off so we started to evacuate and then people (started) running saying there was a shooter.”

Hudson said the friend made it safely back to San Francisco and was in contact with his family. Hudson said he’s become used to hearing about gun violence but has never been so close to it before.

“It just feels strange. It feels like it could really be anyone. That’s really the strangeness of it,” he said.

Calls and emails to YouTube representatives seeking comment were not immediately returned.</s>SAN FRANCISCO: Gunshots erupted at YouTube’s offices in California Tuesday, sparking a panicked escape by employees and a massive police response.

Some media reports said several people were injured.

San Bruno police warned on Twitter to stay away from the area housing the headquarters of the Google-owned video sharing service near San Francisco.

The White House said President Donald Trump had been briefed and that his administration was monitoring the ongoing situation in San Bruno.

Some employees recounted frantic scenes as they fled, with one saying he saw blood on the floor as he escaped.

“We were sitting in a meeting and then we heard people running because it was rumbling the floor. First thought was earthquake,” employee Todd Sherman tweeted.

“I looked down and saw blood drips on the floor and stairs. Peeked around for threats and then we headed downstairs and out the front.”

The police department said in an official tweet, “We are responding to an active shooter. Please stay away from Cherry Ave & Bay Hill Drive.”

One image posted by a Twitter user showed employees being led out of the building with their hands up, with no further explanation.

Another YouTube employee, Vadim Lavrusik, tweeted: “Active shooter at YouTube HQ. Heard shots and saw people running while at my desk. Now barricaded inside a room with coworkers.”

Later, Lavrusik said he had escaped to safety.

Witnesses reported helicopters on the scene as well as police SWAT teams.

Google communications tweeted: “Re: YouTube situation, we are coordinating with authorities and will provide official information here from Google and YouTube as it becomes available.”

YouTube headquarters is located some 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the main Google campus in Mountain View. – AFP
A shooting at YouTube headquarters wounds four. The gunwoman takes her own life.