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U.S. NEWS Thursday 5 april 2018

Police: YouTube shooter was

calm in interview before attack

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and SUD- good person” and had no segments about vegan-
HIN THANAWALA history of mental illness, said ism, animal cruelty and ex-
Associated Press a woman named Leila who ercise, along with glamor
MENIFEE, Calif. (AP) — Just identified herself as an aunt shots of herself.
hours before she shot and as she entered the family Police in Mountain View
wounded three people at home in Menifee. She did said they spoke to Ismail
YouTube headquarters, not give her last name. Aghdam twice after con-
Nasim Aghdam calmly The shooter’s family later tacting the family to report
told police who found her distributed a statement finding his daughter and This Aug. 12, 2009, photo shows Nasim Aghdam, right, as she
joins members of People for the Ethical for Animals, PETA, pro-
sleeping in her car that she outside the home saying it that he never told them testing at the main gate of Marine Corps base Camp Pendleton
was having family problems was “in absolute shock and she could become violent in Oceanside, Calif., against the Marine’s killings of pigs in a mili-
and had left her home. can’t make sense of what or pose a threat to You- tary exercise.
During the 20-minute in- has happened.” Tube employees.q Associated Press
terview with officers early “Although no words can
Tuesday, she did not men- describe our deep pain
tion being angry with You- for this tragedy, our family
Tube or having accused would like to express their
the company of suppress- utmost regret, sorrow for
ing her video posts. She what has happened to in-
gave no indication she was nocent victims,” the state-
a threat to herself or others. ment said.
“It was a very normal con- Investigators do not be-
versation. lieve Aghdam, who was in
There was nothing in her her late 30s, targeted any-
behavior that suggested one in particular, and there
anything unusual,” said is no reason to believe she
Mountain View Police Chief illegally obtained the semi-
Max Bosel. automatic 9mm pistol used
Later that day, she went to in the shooting, San Bruno
a gun range before walk- Police Chief Ed Barberini
ing through a parking ga- said.
rage into a courtyard at Aghdam walked onto the
YouTube’s campus south of YouTube property through
San Francisco, where she a parking garage and it’s
opened fire with a hand- not clear whether she en-
gun and wounded three countered any security.
people. She then killed her- Two women wounded in
self. the shooting were released
The sequence of Agh- Wednesday from a San
dam’s activities emerged Francisco hospital. The third
Wednesday as police con- victim, a 36-year-old man,
tinued gathering informa- was upgraded from critical
tion about the attacker to serious condition.
and her motives. The day before the attack,
Agents with the Bureau of the shooter’s father, Ismail
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms Aghdam, said he warned
and Explosives searched police that his daughter
two Southern California was upset with how You-
homes where Aghdam Tube handled her videos
had lived. Spokeswoman and might be planning to
Ginger Colbrun would not go to its offices.
confirm the locations but Nasim Aghdam “hated”
reporters saw agents en- YouTube and was angry
tering homes in the com- that the company stopped
munities of Menifee, south- paying her for videos she
east of Los Angeles, and 4S posted, Ismail Aghdam told
Ranch, north of San Diego. the Bay Area News Group.
Aghdam was a “really Her video posts included