Woman suspected of shooting three people in the YouTube headquarters before killing himself was furious at this company because it has ceased to pay her for the video she posted on the platform, her father said late on Tuesday.
Two law enforcement officials identified the suspect as Nasim Aghdam southern California. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.
On YouTube was “stop all” and “she was angry,” her father Ismail Agdam says from his home in San Diego in a phone interview with area news group Bay.
People who post on YouTube can get money from the ads that accompany their videos, but the company “de-monetizing” some channels, including by reason of improper materials or having less than 1,000 subscribers.
Ismail Agdam said he reported his daughter missing Monday after she did not return calls for two days.
He said that the family received a call from the mountain view police about 2 a.m. Tuesday, saying that they had found Nasim to sleep in the car.
He said he warned them that it could go on YouTube because she “hated” company.
Mountain view press-Secretary of police Cathy Nelson confirmed, police found a woman with the same name fell asleep in the car sleeps in the mountain Parking lot Tuesday morning. Nelson said the woman refused to answer further questions, but a spokesman for the police did not answer the question of whether the police were alerted Agdam can go on YouTube.
Authorities said earlier Tuesday that the shooting is being investigated as a domestic dispute.
People are terrified huddled inside, call 911, officers and Federal agents swarmed a suburban campus of the company, sandwiched between two interstate freeways in the San Francisco Bay and San Bruno.
YouTube Dianna Arnspiger employee said that she was on the second floor when he heard the shots, ran to the window and saw that the arrow on the patio.
She said that a woman who wore glasses and a scarf, and with the help of “a big, huge gun.”
“It was a woman and she was firing her gun. And I just said, ‘shooter’ and everyone started running,” said Arnspiger.
She and others were hiding in the conference room for an hour while another employee called 911 repeatedly for updates.
“It was terrible,” she said.
A 36-year-old man was in critical condition, a 32-year-old woman was in serious condition and 27-year-old woman was in satisfactory condition, said a hospital spokesman in San Francisco said.
Witnesses described fear before the officers arrived and found the victim near the front door, and then found the shooter in a few minutes, it would seem, had a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the police chief of San Bruno ed Barberini said.
He said two additional victims with gunshot wounds were found in a nearby business moments later. Barberini, initially said there were four people who were shot, but later said that a fourth person was injured ankle.
Zach Vorhies, 37, senior software engineer at YouTube, he said he was at his Desk on the second floor of one of the buildings when the fire alarm went off. He jumped on the skateboard and went to the yard, where he saw the gunman shouted, “come at me, or take me.”
He saw someone lying near the back of the red spot on the stomach, which turned out to be from a gunshot wound. Said Vorhies he realized he was shot when a police officer with a gun in his hand came out through the security door.
He said that the public can access the courtyard where he saw the shooter during operation.
Michael Finney, 21-year-old leader of the fast food across the street from campus, said he came out of the bathroom to see a woman in blood, stand with the calf. There were two friends, trying to stop the blood, through the victim’s sweatshirt as a tourniquet, but it didn’t help, he told the San Jose mercury news.
“Everyone was figuring out what to do,” said Finney. “I tried to calm down and see what I could do. All in shock.”
Google, which owns the world’s largest online video website, said that the security service company is cooperating with authorities to evacuate buildings and did all she could to support the victims and their families.
The YouTube headquarters has over thousands of engineers and other staff in several buildings. Originally built in the late 1990-ies for GAP clothes seller, a town South of San Francisco is known for its sloping green roof of grass.
Inside, Google well-equipped office a few years ago with a three-lane Red Hill for employees to increase from one story to another.
“Today it feels like the whole community on YouTube, all employees become victims of this crime,” said Chris Dale, a spokesman YouTube. “We sympathize with all those affected”.
The white house announced that President Donald trump was informed about the shooting and that officials are watching the events.
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Associated Press writers Michael Balsamo in Los Angeles, Eric Tucker in Washington and Janie Hara in San Francisco contributed to this report.
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This story has been corrected with the new information from authorities that three victims suffered gunshot wounds and a fourth was taken to hospital, but did not shoot. A link has also been removed for patients being transported to Stanford hospital, because the object is said that he gave the wrong information.
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