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YouTube HQ Shooting: Suspect Dead, 3 Injured in California

Last month, YouTube announced it would ban content promoting the sale of guns and gun accessories.

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A woman opened fire at YouTube's headquarters near San Francisco on Tuesday, sending employees scrambling into the street and at least three victims to local hospitals before taking her own life, police said.

Law enforcement officials identified the suspect as Nasim Aghdam of Southern California.

Police did not release any further information on the suspect or speculate on her motives for the shooting at the YouTube office, which is owned by Alphabet Inc's Google.

"We did locate a victim with what we believe to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. It’s a female”, San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini said at a news conference, describing the person the police believe was the shooter.

One of the victims, a 36-year-old man, was listed in critical condition at San Francisco General Hospital. A 32-year-old woman was listed in serious condition and a 27-year-old woman in fair condition. Authorities did not release names of any of the victims.

Lisa Kim, a spokeswoman for Stanford Health Care, said the hospital received between four to five patients from the shooting incident at the YouTube offices.

Local television images showed YouTube employees walking out of the building with their hands raised.

A YouTube product manager, Todd Sherman, described on his Twitter feed hearing people running, first thinking it was an earthquake before he was told that a person had a gun.

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"At that point every new person I saw was a potential shooter. Someone else said that the person shot out the back doors and then shot themselves," Sherman said on Twitter.

"I looked down and saw blood drips on the floor and stairs. Peaked around for threats and then we headed downstairs and out the front," Sherman said.

A police dispatcher said by telephone that it was an "active situation," declining to elaborate.

Google told NBC news in a written statement that it was coordinating with local authorities.

"Customers said they heard what could have been gunshots when they were on their way here," Natalie Mangiante, an employee at Big Mouth Burgers located near the YouTube building, said by phone. Mangiante said she did not see or notice anything.

Last month, YouTube announced it would ban content promoting the sale of guns and gun accessories as well as videos that teach how to make guns.

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