YouTube headquarters shooting
| YouTube headquarters shooting | |
|---|---|
YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, California pictured in April 2017 | |
| Location | YouTube headquarters 901 Cherry Avenue San Bruno, California, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 37°37′41″N 122°25′35″W / 37.62816°N 122.42630°W |
| Date | April 3, 2018 (PDT, UTC−7) |
Attack type | Attempted murder, mass shooting |
| Weapons | Smith & Wesson SD9VE semi-automatic pistol |
| Deaths | 1 (the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 4 (3 by gunfire) |
| Perpetrator | Nasim Najafi Aghdam |
| Motive | Retaliation for YouTube channel demonetization |
On April 3, 2018, at approximately 12:46 p.m. PDT, a shooting occurred at the headquarters of the American video-sharing website YouTube in San Bruno, California. The shooter was identified as 38-year-old Nasim Najafi Aghdam, an Iranian-American woman, who entered through an exterior parking garage, approached an outdoor patio, and opened fire with a Smith & Wesson 9 mm semi-automatic pistol. Aghdam wounded three people, one of them critically, before killing herself with her own firearm. She was just two days short of what would have been her 39th birthday.