2018 YouTube headquarters shooting

The YouTube headquarters shooting was an attack which occurred on April 3, 2018 inside the YouTube headquarters building in San Bruno, California. The perpetrator wounded three people during the attack before ending her own life.
==Shooting==
At around 12:46 P.M. PST, San Bruno police received reports of a shooter at the YouTube headquarters. The perpetrator's weapon held a capacity of ten rounds, and emptied one magazine before reloading. Helicopter footage later showed a large hole and broken glass in the building's lobby doors. The perpetrator eventually took her own life, only two days before her 39th birthday. A coroner's report says that she died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the heart, but it found no evidence of any drugs or alcohol in her system.
==Perpetrator==
===Background===
The perpetrator was identified to be Nasim Najafi Aghdam † (Persian: نسيم نجفى اقدم‎; April 5, 1979 – April 3, 2018 [aged 38]), an Iranian female bodybuilder, vegan activist, and fitness personality. She was born in Urmia, Iran, and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1996. She was a registered member of the Baháʼí Faith and described how veganism was aligned with her religion, but was critical of Middle Eastern cultural practices of Muslims and Baháʼís who ate animals.
Nasim posted content on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram and YouTube in Persian, Azerbaijani, English and Turkish. Her content went viral on Iranian social media and drew widespread attention. She had previously protested with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals against the use of pigs in United States Marine Corps training procedures for victims of trauma.
Nasim purchased and registered a 9mm Smith & Wesson semiautomatic pistol from a San Diego gun dealer on January 16, 2018.
On March 31, 2018, Nasim's family reported to the police that Nasim was missing. According to her father, she "hated" YouTube, and the family was worried she might be traveling to the company's offices.
The morning before the shooting, police officers contacted Nasim when they found her sleeping in her car in a Walmart parking lot in Mountain View, 25 miles (40 km) south of YouTube's headquarters. The officers did not identify her as a threat. It became unclear if these police officers were aware of the concerns of Nasim's father. Nasim visited a shooting range the day before the shooting.
===Motive===
Police revealed that Nasim was motivated by her displeasure at the policies of the YouTube channels that she maintained. She complained about YouTube on her website, writing that "Youtube filtered my channels to keep them from getting views!" and that the company had demonetized most of her videos. Later on, she made videos about the demonetization that was affecting all four of her YouTube channels. People believed that the motive for the shooting was due to YouTube's demonetization, and her videos being age-restricted. After the incident took place, all of her Google and YouTube accounts were terminated, and her website was taken offline by her web hosting service. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram also took action by terminating her accounts. Using the Wayback Machine, some content was archived can still be viewed.
Nasim, her father, of Riverside County, said that his daughter was a "vegan activist and animal lover" who told him that YouTube had been censoring her videos and stopped paying her for her content. “She was angry,” he said.
===Perpetrator's other channels (All Terminated)===
== See also ==
* Sturmgeist89, an infamous Finnish YouTuber who committed the 2007 
== References ==
Category:History of YouTube
Category:Terminated YouTubers
Category:Deceased YouTubers