YouTube shooting: Suspect killed self after wounding three, police sayFemale shooter believed dead after opening fire at the online giant’s San Bruno campus Tuesday afternoon
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A YouTube sign is shown across the street from the company's offices in San Bruno, Calif., Tuesday, April 3, 2018.
A woman opened fire at YouTube headquarters Tuesday, setting off a panic among employees and wounding at least four people before fatally shooting herself, police and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
SAN BRUNO, CA - APRIL 03: Police walk outside of the YouTube headquarters on April 3, 2018 in San Bruno, California. Police are investigating an active shooter incident at YouTube headquarters that has left at least one person dead and several wounded. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Carl's Jr. workers and others sit in a shopping center parking lot near YouTube's offices in San Bruno, Calif., Tuesday, April 3, 2018. A woman opened fire at YouTube headquarters Tuesday, setting off a panic among employees and wounding several people before fatally shooting herself, police and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Law enforcement stands watch outside of the YouTube headquarters on April 3, 2018 in San Bruno, California. Police are investigating an active shooter incident at YouTube headquarters that has left at least one person dead and several wounded. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Police walk outside of the YouTube headquarters on April 3, 2018 in San Bruno, California. Police are investigating an active shooter incident at YouTube headquarters that has left at least one person dead and several wounded. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Police look on as employees walk across the streer outside of the YouTube headquarters on April 3, 2018 in San Bruno, California. A woman opened fire at the facility, wounding four people before taking her own life, according to authorities. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Police in tactical gear walk outside of the YouTube headquarters on April 3, 2018 in San Bruno, California. A woman opened fire at the facility, wounding four people before taking her own life, according to authorities. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Police in tactical gear walk outside of the YouTube headquarters on April 3, 2018 in San Bruno, California. A woman opened fire at the facility, wounding four people before taking her own life, according to authorities. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Officers run toward a YouTube office in San Bruno, Calif., Tuesday, April 3, 2018. Police say theyre responding to an active shooter at YouTube headquarters. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
This image taken from video from KGO-TV shows a person is searched as police respond to reports of a shooting at YouTube headquarters in the city of San Bruno, Calif., on Tuesday, April 3, 2018. City Manager Connie Jackson says there have been multiple 911 calls reporting a shooting and that police and fire officials have responded. (KGO-TV via AP)
Officers walk near a YouTube office in San Bruno, Calif., Tuesday, April 3, 2018. Police in Northern California are responding to reports of a shooting at YouTube headquarters in the city of San Bruno. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
A video grab from a video released on Twitter by Bryce C. shows emergency vehicles responding to reports of an active shooter at YouTube's offices in San Bruno, California April 3, 2018.
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Media gather outside during an active shooting at YouTube's offices in San Bruno, California on April 3, 2018.
Gunshots erupted at YouTube's offices in California Tuesday, sparking a panicked escape by employees and a massive police response.Some media reports said several people were injured. San Bruno police warned on Twitter to stay away from the area housing the headquarters of the Google-owned video sharing service near San Francisco.
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SAN BRUNO, CA - APRIL 03: Police walk outside of the YouTube headquarters on April 3, 2018 in San Bruno, California. Police are investigating an active shooter incident at YouTube headquarters that has left at least one person dead and several wounded. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
SAN BRUNO, CA - APRIL 03: San Bruno police chief Ed Barberini speaks to members of the media outside of the YouTube headquarters on April 3, 2018 in San Bruno, California. Police are investigating an active shooter incident at YouTube headquarters that has left at least one person dead and several wounded. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
SAN BRUNO, CA - APRIL 03: Police survey the scene outside of the YouTube headquarters on April 3, 2018 in San Bruno, California. Police are investigating an active shooter incident at YouTube headquarters that has left at least one person dead and several wounded. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
SAN BRUNO, CA - APRIL 03: San Bruno police chief Ed Barberini speaks to members of the media outside of the YouTube headquarters on April 3, 2018 in San Bruno, California. Police are investigating an active shooter incident at YouTube headquarters that has left at least one person dead and several wounded. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
SAN BRUNO, CA - APRIL 03: Police walk outside of the YouTube headquarters on April 3, 2018 in San Bruno, California. Police are investigating an active shooter incident at YouTube headquarters that has left at least one person dead and several wounded. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
SAN BRUNO, CA - APRIL 03: Police put on tactical gear outside of the YouTube headquarters on April 3, 2018 in San Bruno, California. Police are investigating an active shooter incident at YouTube headquarters that has left at least one person dead and several wounded. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
SAN BRUNO, CA - APRIL 03: Police officers stand by in front of the YouTube headquarters on April 3, 2018 in San Bruno, California. Police are investigating an active shooter incident at YouTube headquarters that has left at least one person dead and several wounded. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
SAN BRUNO, CA - APRIL 03: Police officers stand by in front of the YouTube headquarters on April 3, 2018 in San Bruno, California. Police are investigating an active shooter incident at YouTube headquarters that has left at least one person dead and several wounded. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
A YouTube sign is shown across the street from the company's offices in San Bruno, Calif., Tuesday, April 3, 2018. A woman opened fire at YouTube headquarters Tuesday, setting off a panic among employees and wounding at least four people before fatally shooting herself, police and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
SAN BRUNO, CA - APRIL 03: Police walk outside of the YouTube headquarters on April 3, 2018 in San Bruno, California. Police are investigating an active shooter incident at YouTube headquarters that has left at least one person dead and several wounded. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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SAN BRUNO, CA - APRIL 03: Police walk outside of the YouTube headquarters on April 3, 2018 in San Bruno, California. Police are investigating an active shooter incident at YouTube headquarters that has left at least one person dead and several wounded. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
By ROBERT SALONGA |
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PUBLISHED: April 3, 2018 at 1:21 pm | UPDATED: April 3, 2018 at 4:07 pm
SAN BRUNO — A woman appears to have shot and killed herself after opening fire at YouTube headquarters Tuesday afternoon and wounding three people, according to San Bruno police.
Chief Ed Barberini said the person believed to be the shooter was found dead, from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The San Mateo County Coroner’s Office has confirmed that they have been summoned to the site.
Barberini said police were called at 12:46 p.m. to the online video giant’s Cherry Avenue campus for reports of gunfire, and responding officers were met by a multitude of fleeing employees.
“It was very chaotic, as you can imagine,” Barberini said.
The chief said officers soon found a victim with a gunshot wound near the entrance, and soon after came upon the suspected shooter at an outdoor patio, dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The eventually found two other shooting victims, and Barberini affirmed that there was no longer any active threat.
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“We have one subject who is deceased inside the building with a self-inflicted wound at this time, (who) we believe to be the shooter,” Barberini said.
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital has acknowledged receiving patients from YouTube, but the range of their injures was not fully disclosed.
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital spokesman Brent Andrew said the facility has received a 32-year-old woman in serious condition, a 27-year-old woman in fair condition and a 36-year-old man in critical condition.
Trauma surgeon Dr. Andre Campbell declined to detail the victims’ wounds, but said none had undergone surgery as of Tuesday afternoon. He added that the male victim’s critical status stemmed from blood loss.
Campbell said all of the patients are awake, and “shocked like we are.” He also lamented the occurrence of yet another multiple-casualty shooting, and added that gunshot victims are a regular instance at his hospital.
“We have a serious problem we need to address,” Campbell said.
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Joe Fragola, a spokesman for Kaiser South San Francisco, said that facility has received a female victim, but that she was not shot, and suffered a possible sprained ankle.
Stanford Hospital confirmed that no victims were sent there, contrary to early reports.
“We don’t have any patients at this time but we are on standby,” spokeswoman Lisa Kim said.
Michael Finney, a 21-year-old supervisor at Carl’s Jr. across the street, was in the bathroom during the shooting and didn’t hear anything until he came out and saw a woman in the booth near the front door bleeding from the calf with two friends frantically trying to stem the bleeding.
He rushed over to help.
“I saw the lady was shot in the calf,” he said. “Her friends were trying to put pressure on the wound.”
At first they used the victim’s own sweatshirt, twisted it tightly and tied it above her calf but it wasn’t helping.
“Everyone was figuring out what to do,” said Finney. “I was trying to stay calm and see what I could do. Everybody is shocked.”
Finney then ran into the office and rummaged through the desk and cupboards. He first came out with rubber bands that are used for rolling money.
“I tried rubber bands at first and of course it didn’t work,” he said.
He raced back to the office and found a bungee cord, and they wrapped it tightly above the victim’s calf until the paramedics arrived.
Finney said the woman looked to be in her 20s and was calm as they tried helping her.
Erick Zaragoza, a 22-year-old student from nearby Skyline College, had pulled into a restaurant parking lot half a block from YouTube headquarters when he heard the shooting.
“It had to be at least 15 gunshots,” he said. “I’m seeing people running and thinking, what’s going on?”
Zaragoza said one of the chefs from the restaurant approached him and said there was a woman with a gun firing at people on YouTube’s patio.
After that, Zaragoza went to a nearby Carl’s Jr. closer to the shooting scene, where he saw a female gunshot victim being treated in an ambulance.
“They had one lady in the ambulance. Her leg was bandaged up but she otherwise looked fine,” he said. “It was pretty crazy, honestly. I’m thinking what the hell?”
Asked about the chef who witnessed the shooter firing at people, Zaragoza said, “He looked out of breath. He said he was fine but there was a lady shooting.”
The chef told him there was a lot of people on the patio, which worried him. The patio is on the Interstate 280 side of the campus and is located near the front of the building.
San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa lauded the police and citizen response to the shooting, and voiced confidence that the community will bounce back from the violence.
“I commend the YouTube employees who maintained their composure during this tragic event and the incredible response by law enforcement officers who quickly secured the campus,” Canepa said in a statement. “This is a resilient community that will recover with each other’s support. I assure the survivors that they will not be alone in their recoveries. ”
Google, which owns YouTube, has told its employees to stay away from the San Bruno site and referred them to an internal hotline for more information and instruction.
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We advised all other employees in the Bay Area, and people with meetings scheduled, to stay away from the area, and that there is no need to take any action. We have provided employees a helpline.
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One YouTube employee tweeted from inside the headquarters saying he was barricaded inside a room until his room was evacuated.
“Heard shots and saw people running while at my desk. Now barricaded inside a room with coworkers,” tweeted the employee, Vadim Lavrusik.
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Was just briefed on the shooting at YouTube’s HQ in San Bruno, California. Our thoughts and prayers are with everybody involved. Thank you to our phenomenal Law Enforcement Officers and First Responders that are currently on the scene.
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From everyone at Apple, we send our sympathy and support to the team at YouTube and Google, especially the victims and their families.
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My staff & I are closely following developments from the active shooter situation at YouTube HQ in San Bruno, CA. Thank you to our heroic first responders. Our Bay Area community – and all American communities – deserve real action to #EndGunViolence.
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My stomach sinks with yet another active shooter alert. I’m praying for the safety of everyone at YouTube headquarters.
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YouTube purchased the San Bruno office park for $215 million in January 2016. YouTube’s headquarters, which is nestled between the Interstate 380 and Bayhill Shopping Center, can host between 2,500 and 2,800 workers.
The shooting comes as YouTube plans this month to modify its policy on gun sales. The popular video site announced it would ban content that promotes the sale of guns and accessories like bump stocks, which modify guns to fire rapidly. YouTube announced the new guidelines just days before last month’s March for Our Lives gun-control rallies.
The change sparked criticism from gun rights groups, like the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a firearms industry trade group, which called the new policies “troubling” and “worrisome.”
Check back later for updates to this story.
Staff writers David DeBolt, Emily DeRuy, Tatiana Sanchez and Kellie Ann Benz contributed to this report.
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