| YouTube headquarters shooting | |
|---|---|
 YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, California pictured in April 2017 | |
  San Bruno San Bruno (San Francisco)  San Bruno San Bruno (San Francisco Bay Area)  San Bruno San Bruno (California)  San Bruno San Bruno (the United States) | |
| 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[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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