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   The night before Nasim Aghdam opened fire in a courtyard at   
   YouTube’s headquarters Tuesday afternoon, Mountain View police   
   found the San Diego woman sleeping in her car.   
      
   She had been reported missing by her family in Southern   
   California, and her father Ismail Aghdam told police she might   
   be going to YouTube because she “hated” the company. Police   
   called the family at 2 a.m. Tuesday to say she’d been found and   
   that everything was “under control,” her father said.   
      
   But hours later, his daughter was dead of a self-inflicted   
   gunshot after shooting three people and causing an afternoon of   
   terror at YouTube’s headquarters.   
      
   In an interview Tuesday night with the Bay Area News Group,   
   Ismail Aghdam said his 38-year-old daughter told her family a   
   couple of weeks ago that YouTube had been censoring her videos   
   and stopped paying her for her content. “She was angry,” he said   
   in an interview from his Riverside County home.   
      
   It wasn’t clear Tuesday night what Mountain View police knew   
   about her history with YouTube.   
      
   A police spokeswoman confirmed that officers had found a woman   
   of the same name asleep in a vehicle early Tuesday morning in a   
   parking lot.   
      
   “Our officers made contact with the woman after the license   
   plate of her vehicle matched that of a missing person out of   
   Southern California,” said Mountain View Police spokeswoman   
   Katie Nelson.   
      
   “The woman confirmed her identity to us and answered subsequent   
   questions. At the conclusion of our discussion, her family was   
   notified that she had been located.”   
      
   Ismail Aghdam said his daughter was a vegan activist and animal   
   lover. As a youngster, she would not even kill ants that invaded   
   the family home, instead using paper to remove them to the back   
   yard, he said. State records show she had once established a   
   charity called Peace Thunder Inc., to “educate people about   
   animal cruelty, environmental pollution” and other causes.   
      
   “For me, animal rights equal human rights,” Aghdam told the San   
   Diego Union-Tribune at a People for the Ethical Treatment of   
   Animals protest in 2009 outside Camp Pendleton.   
      
   She told her family that YouTube had stopped paying her for the   
   content she posted to the site, Ismail Aghdam said. YouTubers   
   can receive payment for advertisements accompanying their   
   videos, but the company “de-monetizes” some channels for various   
   reasons, meaning ads don’t run with them.   
      
   Aghdam was prolific on social media, posting videos and photos   
   on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube. Her YouTube channel included   
   strange workout video clips, graphic animal abuse videos and   
   vegan cooking tutorials. But recent posts show evidence of her   
   growing frustration.   
      
   Aghdam’s YouTube, Facebook and Instagram pages were all taken   
   down late Tuesday, but not before reporters from this news   
   organization were able to view much of the material.   
      
   On a March 18 Instagram post, she railed at YouTube: “All my   
   youtube channels got filtered by youtube so my videos hardly get   
   views and it is called “merely relegation.” This is also   
   happening to many other channels on youtube. This is the   
   peaceful tactic used on the internet to censor and suppress   
   people who speak the truth and are not good for the financial,   
   political … gains of the system and big businesses. I recently   
   got filtered on instagram too and maybe its related to youtube   
   and youtube staff asked instagram to filter me here too!!?”   
      
   On Jan. 28, Aghdam recorded a video of herself lamenting her   
   perceived “discrimination” by YouTube, particularly railing on   
   how YouTube determined her ab workout video was too racy and,   
   therefore, filtered it.   
      
   “I’m being discriminated and filtered on YouTube and I’m not the   
   only one,” the video begins, as Aghdam, wearing a black, white   
   and orange long-sleeved shirt and short jet black hair stands in   
   front of a background of green and white stars. “They age   
   restricted my ab workout video. A video that has nothing bad in   
   it. Nothing sexual.”   
      
   On one of her many websites, she claims to have at least four   
   YouTube channels, one in English, and then others in Farsi and   
   Turkish.   
      
   A law enforcement source on Tuesday afternoon said investigators   
   were looking into whether she may have been targeting a   
   boyfriend, however San Bruno Police late Tuesday night confirmed   
   she was the attacker but said investigators were trying to   
   determine her motive.   
   “At this time there is no evidence that the shooter knew the   
   victims of this shooting or that individuals were specifically   
   targeted,” the department said in a press release.   
      
   In the interview with this news organization, her father said   
   the family knew nothing about Nasim owning a gun. “Maybe she   
   bought one” recently, he said.   
      
   Nasim’s brother, Shahran Aghdam, spoke to reporters from the   
   foyer of the family’s home in Menifee in Riverside County on   
   Tuesday night. His mother could be heard crying in the home and   
   his father asked one reporter about the condition of the victims.   
      
   The family came to California from Iran in 1996, Shahran said.   
   He said Nasim had been living recently with her grandmother in   
   San Diego. “She was always complaining that YouTube ruined her   
   life,” he said.   
      
   He said she was missing since Saturday and not answering her   
   cell phone. When he learned his sister was in Mountain View, he   
   Googled the city and found out it was near YouTube headquarters.   
      
   He said he called the Mountain View police, who found her and   
   reported back that she was fine, and they would keep an eye on   
   her.   
      
   Wednesday would have been Nasim’s 38th birthday. He said she   
   never hurt anyone until today, and has no idea where she may   
   have gotten a gun. “She chose the day to die the day she came,”   
   he said.   
      
   Southern California News Group staff writers Stephanie Schulte   
   and Richard De Atley contributed to this report.   
      
   https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/04/03/youtube-shooters-father-   
   says-she-was-angry-at-company/   
      
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