YouTube Headquarters Shooting

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/youtube-shooting-san-bruno-california-hq-today-2018-04-03-live-updates/

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/youtube-shooting-suspect-had-angry-045200723.html

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-youtube-shooter-20180403-story.html

 

Get well soon for those who were wounded during the shooting.

Edited April 4, 2018 by Ghost_Assassin

[Joshy 4,364 / 44,927]

Companies like that would often recruit my classmates and friends although I don't think I know anyone who is currently working there...  I think.  I only visited the Google HQ once and I felt like they really offered a lot of support to their employees and contractors (Google owns Youtube).  To hear something like this happened at one of those companies is very shocking, and it's really striking for me as I often consider opportunities.  I thought they would have better security preventing people from the outside doing things like this.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-respond-reports-shooting-california-youtube-203616672.html

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SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) — 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 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 a.m. 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.

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.

Michael Finney, a 21-year-old supervisor at Carl's Jr. across from the campus, said he came out of the bathroom to see a woman in a booth bleeding from the calf. Two friends were trying to stop the bleeding, using the victim's sweatshirt as a tourniquet, but it wasn't helping, he told the San Jose Mercury News.

"Everyone was figuring out what to do," Finney said. "I was trying to stay calm and see what I could do. Everybody is shocked."

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.

 

Edited April 4, 2018 by Joshy

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So if her content gains views from this, does YouTube pay her or her father?

[Chormee 2,973 / 29,227]

A woman did this? Man, even the shootings at YouTube are diverse.

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2 hours ago, TheSadBandit said:

So if her content gains views from this, does YouTube pay her or her father?

Her Youtube Channel was taken down after the incident.

[TSARGA 57 / 3,122]

Call Logan Paul.

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2 hours ago, BLAZE said:

Her Youtube Channel was taken down after the incident.

I would've assumed so, but usually when something like this happens there's a window in which everyone, and I mean everyone googles her, and it pulls up her videos and such. Now I know that they took it down, but I wouldn't think they're efficient enough to have known who she was out of the millions of YouTubers out there in seconds to take down her channel. I'm talking about the profits in that small margin of time.

Edited April 4, 2018 by TheSadBandit

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14 minutes ago, TheSadBandit said:

I would've assumed so, but usually when something like this happens there's a window in which everyone, and I mean everyone googles her, and it pulls up her videos and such. Now I know that they took it down, but I wouldn't think they're efficient enough to have known who she was out of the millions of YouTubers out there in seconds to take down her channel. I'm talking about the profits in that small margin of time.

I dont think anyone knew who she was until they announced it. plus most of her vids were not family friendly. but i think the money would probably be removed from the account since the owner if the channel needs to cash it out.

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1 minute ago, BLAZE said:

I dont think anyone knew who she was until they announced it. plus most of her vids were not family friendly. but i think the money would probably be removed from the account since the owner if the channel needs to cash it out.

I never got into YT so I just assumed it went straight into her bank account. Anyways even though no one died, YT made bank on whatever she had on that account  

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Just now, TheSadBandit said:

I never got into YT so I just assumed it went straight into her bank account. Anyways even though no one died, YT made bank on whatever she had on that account  

probably

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OOF!  

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@TheRealShark want a bigger oof?

 

 

 

[Joshy 4,364 / 44,927]

On 4/4/2018 at 3:09 PM, TheSadBandit said:

I never got into YT so I just assumed it went straight into her bank account. Anyways even though no one died, YT made bank on whatever she had on that account  

 

It's a devastating event; they wont care about the money.

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18 hours ago, Joshy said:

 

It's a devastating event; they wont care about the money.

lol you actually think google doesnt care about money, google profit of fucking you over why would they stop caring because of this?