What to Know About Suspected YouTube Shooter Nasim Aghdam

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One person died and three were injured in a shooting reported Tuesday at YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, Calif.

Law enforcement officials identified the shooter as 39-year-old Nasim Aghdam of San Diego, according to the Associated Press, but little is known about her motive. San Bruno police said there is no evidence that the shooter was previously acquainted with any of the victims. Two unnamed law enforcement officials previously said that the shooting was being investigated as a domestic dispute.

The shooter, who was found dead by law enforcement Tuesday, wore glasses and a scarf and carried a “big huge pistol,” according to a YouTube employee who witnessed the incident from a second-floor window.

YouTube employees said they heard shots and saw people running on social media Tuesday afternoon. San Bruno police said they saw employees fleeing the headquarters upon arriving to the area and found one gunshot victim toward the front of the building. Two other shooting victims were found in adjacent businesses. Four victims were transported to local hospitals, police said, including a 36-year-old man who was in critical condition. One of those people, who did not suffer a gunshot wound, was treated for an ankle injury.

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1. The bizarre online presence of YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam

Aghdam was a YouTuber who ran several channels. Her most popular one, 'Nasime Wonder1', had more than 5000 subscribers and her videos attracted millions of views.

On one Instagram account (she had at least two), the follower count exceeded 50,000.

She also ran her own website, which provides a disturbing insight into Aghdam's life in the lead-up to her attack and suicide. While Aghdam's Facebook, Instagram and YouTube accounts have all been deleted since the attack, the domain nasimesabz.com remains active.

Against a black background, colourful text and lurid images reveal a paranoid mind who bore a grudge against YouTube. She became disillusioned with the video-sharing platform after many of her videos were de-monetised in 2017, in a controversial company move widely known as 'Ad-pocalypse'.

Posting screenshots of her YouTube analytics, she wrote that "new close-minded employees" had begun suppressing her content and reducing her viewcount.

"BE AWARE! Dictatorship exists in all countries but with different tactics!" reads the website.

"There is no free speech in real world and you will be suppressed for telling the truth that is not supported by the system. Videos of targeted users are filtered and merely regulated, so that people can hardly see their videos!"

In the same block of text, she quoted Adolf Hitler.

The website is a mish-mash of wellbeing advice and activism, from the 'vegan food pyramid', to graphic animal abuse photos, to a video entitled 'Health Risks of Anal Sex'.

Aghdam, who was Persian, wrote in English and in Farsi, the official language of Iran.

A devoted animal rights activist, she posted gruesome images and videos of dogs being boiled alive or dogs being skinned. She accused Chinese people of torturing animals to death and eating cats and dogs.

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2. Some serious unhinged stuff

One would have thought this person might have gotten on the radar sooner.