YouTube Shooter Was a Leftist, PETA Activist, Likely Motive Identified
By The Times of Israel. Gunfire erupted at YouTube’s offices in California Tuesday, leaving three people wounded and sparking a panicked escape before the suspected shooter — a woman — apparently committed suicide.
Two law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, identified the suspect as Nasim Aghdam, a 39-year-old San Diego resident.
California news outlets late Tuesday said she appeared to be a vegan-themed content creator who has raged against YouTube on her personal website for what she saw as censorship of her videos.
“There is no free speech in real world and you will be suppressed for telling the truth that is not supported by the system,” read a post on a website identified as Aghdam’s by the San Francisco Chronicle . . .
Aghdam was quoted in a 2009 story in the San Diego Union-Tribune about a protest by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals against the use of pigs in military trauma training. She dressed in a wig and jeans with drops of painted “blood” on them, holding a plastic sword at the demonstration outside the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base. (Read more from “Youtube Shooter Identified as Leftist Activist” HERE)
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The Latest: Father Says Suspect Was Angry at YouTube
By ABC News. . . .The father of a woman suspected of shooting three people at YouTube’s headquarters says she was angry at the company because it stopped paying her for videos she posted on the platform.
Ismail Aghdam told the Bay Area News Group that he warned police his daughter, Nasim Aghdam, might be going to YouTube because she “hated” the company.
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 telling they found Nasim sleeping in a car and he warned them she might go to YouTube.
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. (Read more from “The Latest: Father Says Suspect Was Angry at YouTube” HERE)
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