April 3, 2018; 6 years ago (2018-04-03) (PDT, UTC−7)
Attack type
Attempted murder, mass shooting
Weapons
Smith & Wesson SD9VE semi-automatic pistol[1]
Deaths
1 (the perpetrator)[2]
Injured
4 (3 by gunfire) [3]
Perpetrator
Nasim Najafi Aghdam[4]
Motive
Retaliation for YouTube channel demonetization[5]
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.[6][7][8]
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