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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 4 april 2018

Located next to Wilhelmina Restaurant Tel. 583-0404

Woman shoots 3, self at YouTube

in possible domestic dispute

By RYAN NAKASHIMA and Witnesses described terror “I was trying to stay calm
SUDHIN THANAWALA before officers arrived and and see what I could do.
Associated Press discovered a victim near a Everybody is shocked.”
SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) front door and then found Google, which owns the
— A woman opened fire the shooter several minutes world’s biggest online
with a handgun Tuesday later with what appeared video website, said the
in a courtyard at YouTube to be a self-inflicted gun- company’s security team
headquarters, wounding shot wound, San Bruno Po- worked with authorities to
three people before fatally lice Chief Ed Barberini said. evacuate buildings and
shooting herself in what is He said two additional gun- was doing whatever it Armed law enforcement personnel exit YouTube headquarters,
being investigated as a shot victims were found at could support the victims Tuesday, April 3, 2018, in San Bruno, Calif.
domestic dispute, authori- an adjacent business min- and their families.q Associated Press
ties said. utes later. Barberini initially
Terrified employees hud- said there were four peo-
dled inside, calling 911, as ple who had been shot but
officers and federal agents later clarified that a fourth
swarmed the company’s person had suffered an an-
suburban campus sand- kle injury.
wiched between two inter- Zach Vorhies, 37, a senior
states in the San Francisco software engineer at You-
Bay Area city of San Bruno. Tube, said he was at his
YouTube employee Dian- desk working on the sec-
na Arnspiger said she was ond floor of one of the
on the building’s second buildings when the fire
floor when she heard gun- alarm went off. He got on
shots, ran to a window and his skateboard and ap-
saw the shooter on a patio proached a courtyard,
outside. where he saw the shooter
She said the woman wore yelling, “’Come at me, or
glasses and a scarf and come get me.’”
was using a “big huge pis- He saw somebody lying
tol.” She and others hid in nearby on his back with a
a conference room for an red stain on his stomach
hour while another em- that appeared to be from
ployee repeatedly called a bullet wound. Vorhies
911 for updates. said he realized there was
“It was terrifying,” she said. an active shooter when a
Authorities gave few details police officer with an as-
about the shooter and vic- sault rifle came through a
tims, except that the gun- security door.
fire was being investigated He said the public can ac-
as a domestic dispute, two cess the courtyard where
law enforcement officials he saw the shooter during
with knowledge of the in- work hours.
vestigation told The Associ- Michael Finney, a 21-year-
ated Press. They spoke on old supervisor at Carl’s Jr.
the condition of anonym- across from the campus,
ity because they were not said he came out of the
authorized to discuss the bathroom to see a woman
probe. in a booth bleeding from
A 36-year-old man was the calf. Two friends were
in critical condition, a trying to stop the bleeding,
32-year-old woman was using the victim’s sweat-
in serious condition and a shirt as a tourniquet, but it
27-year-old woman was wasn’t helping, he told the
in fair condition, a spokes- San Jose Mercury News.
man for San Francisco “Everyone was figuring out
General Hospital said. what to do,” Finney said.