*SAN BRUNO:* The woman identified by police as the attacker who woundedthree people at YouTube’s headquarters in California was a vegan bloggerwho accused the video-sharing service of discriminating against her,according to her online profile.
Police said 39-year-old Nasim Najafi Aghdam from San Diego was behindTuesday’s shooting at YouTube’s offices in Silicon Valley, south of SanFrancisco, where the company owned by Alphabet Inc’s Google employs nearly2,000 people.
A man was in critical condition and two women were seriously wounded in theattack, which ended when Aghdam shot and killed herself.
“The San Bruno Police Department is investigating a motive for thisshooting. At this time there is no evidence that the shooter knew thevictims of this shooting or that individuals were specifically targeted,”police said in a statement.
Aghdam’s online profile shows she was a vegan activist who ran a websitecalled NasimeSabz.com, meaning “Green Breeze” in Persian, where she postedabout Persian culture and veganism, as well as long passages critical ofYouTube.
A screenshot of a video posted on Aghnam’s YouTube channel before it wastaken down on Tuesday, showed her complaining that “YouTube filtered mychannels to keep them from getting views!”
YouTube spokeswoman Jessica Mason could not immediately be reached forcomment.
There are hundreds of mass shootings every year in the United States. Anational debate around tighter curbs on gun ownership has intensified sincethe massacre of 17 people at a Florida high school in February shocked thepublic. – Agencies