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   Southern California woman’s family says they warned of danger,   
   but police (lie and...) say conversation made no such suggestion   
      
   SAN BRUNO — YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam practiced at a gun   
   range Tuesday morning before she went to the company’s San Bruno   
   campus and wounded three people before shooting and killing   
   herself in what investigators say was a violent revolt against   
   the company’s content policies, authorities said.   
      
   San Bruno police chief Ed Barberini said there is “no evidence”   
   linking the 38-year-old Aghdam to anyone at the scene and that   
   there is no evidence she was selecting her victims. The shooting   
   seemed motivated by her anger at YouTube’s “policies and   
   practices,” he said. Aghdam had recently railed against the   
   online video giant over perceived censorship of her uploads.   
      
   “We know that she was upset with YouTube and we’ve determined   
   that right now that’s the motivation that we’ve identified,”   
   Barberini said. “Whether that rises to the level of terrorism   
   hopefully will be determined in the next couple weeks.”   
      
   Baberini added that the 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun used in the   
   Tuesday afternoon attack was legally purchased and registered to   
   Aghdam, and that she apparently sharpened up her shooting skills   
   beforehand.   
      
   “(Aghdam) went to a local gun range yesterday morning prior to   
   visiting YouTube,” the chief said.   
      
   San Bruno police investigators spent more than an hour at   
   Jackson Arms, a South San Francisco shooting range, on   
   Wednesday. They declined to say why they were there. Range owner   
   Jason Remolona refused to answer questions about whether Aghdam   
   had been at the range, referring questions to San Bruno police.   
      
   At her family’s home in the Riverside County community of   
   Menifee, her father walked out of the house Wednesday afternoon   
   and handed a gathering of reporters a typed statement shortly   
   after a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and   
   Explosives agent left the home carrying a heavy, grey plastic   
   bin around 2 p.m.   
      
   “Our family is in absolute shock and can’t make sense of what   
   has happened yesterday. Although no words can describe our deep   
   pain for this tragedy, our family would like to express their   
   utmost regret, sorrow for what has happened to innocent victims.   
   Our thoughts and prayers are with them and their families,” the   
   statement read. “We are praying for speedy recovery of the   
   injured and ask God to bestow patience upon all persons hurt in   
   this horrific, senseless act.”   
      
   The family also asked for privacy from the press and to thank   
   authorities.   
      
   Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital said Wednesday that   
   two victims have been released: a 32-year-old woman admitted in   
   serious condition and a 27-year-old woman admitted in fair   
   condition. A 36-year-old man remains hospitalized in serious   
   condition, the hospital said.   
      
   The FBI and ATF are also involved in the investigation, and on   
   Wednesday morning, authorities executed search warrants in   
   Menifee and at the San Diego home where relatives say she most   
   recently lived with her grandmother.   
      
   In interviews late Tuesday, Aghdam’s family asserted they warned   
   police about her potential for violence and said Aghdam “was   
   always complaining that YouTube ruined her life.” Her brother,   
   Shahran Aghdam, said he was particularly worried after learning   
   his sister had been contacted by police prior to the shooting in   
   Mountain View, and realizing how close that was to YouTube   
   headquarters.   
      
   Family members told reporters they were not aware she had a gun,   
   and surmised it must have been recent purchase.   
      
   “We called the cop again and told him there is a reason she went   
   all the way from San Diego to there so she might do something. I   
   didn’t know she has a gun. I thought she might go there and   
   start a fight or something and then the cop told me he would   
   keep an eye on her,” he said. “And after 12 hours the shooting   
   happened, so they didn’t do anything and she got killed and 3 or   
   4 more people got hurt. I did the best I can to avoid it but the   
   cop didn’t do their job.”   
      
   Mountain View police objected to that characterization and in a   
   statement Wednesday detailed their exchange with Aghdam’s   
   family. Aghdam was reported missing Monday after being last seen   
   on Saturday.   
      
   In the statement, police said officers encountered Aghdam around   
   1:40 a.m. Tuesday when they ran a license-plate check on a car   
   parked on Showers Drive occupied by a woman who was asleep   
   inside, and their check turned up the missing persons report.   
   Officers contacted the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department,   
   where the report was filed.   
      
   Aghdam, they said, freely identified herself and told officers   
   that she was having problems with her family and was also   
   looking for a job.   
      
   “At no point during our roughly 20 minute interaction with her   
   did she mention anything about YouTube, if she was upset with   
   them, or that she had planned to harm herself or others,” police   
   said in the statement. “Throughout our entire interaction with   
   her, she was calm and cooperative … she in no way met any reason   
   for us to speak with her further or possibly detain her.”   
      
   Police then contacted her family, and talked to Aghdam’s father   
   and brother, and said “at no point in the conversation did   
   either Aghdam’s father or brother make any statements regarding   
   the woman’s potential threat to, or a possible attack on, the   
   YouTube campus.”   
      
   The father called back an hour later, police said, to specify   
   that she had recently become upset about something YouTube had   
   done to her videos, and that might be the reason she was in   
   Northern Cailfornia. Police added that “at no point did her   
   father or brother mention anything about potential acts of   
   violence or a possibility of Aghdam lashing out as a result of   
   her issues with her videos.”   
      
   “They remained calm throughout this second phone call,” police   
   said.   
      
   San Bruno police pulled up their stakes at the YouTube campus   
   early Wednesday after completing evidence-gathering in the case.   
      
   “We’ve turned the building back over to YouTube,” Barberini   
   said. “We’re completed with our forensic examination of the   
   evidence inside.”   
      
   Throughout early Wednesday afternoon, small groups of six to   
   eight people were escorted in and out of YouTube headquarters,   
   some leaving with backpacks and folders. At least five people in   
   YouTube and Google security jackets patrolled the sidewalk out   
   front and guarded entrances to the campus parking garages, which   
   opened occasionally to let a car exit. All declined to speak to   
   a reporter.   
      
   At about 1:40 p.m., Chief Ed Barberini and several other   
   officers were seen walking outside the office. He earlier said   
   the building would be closed for normal business for a couple   
   days and employees would be sent to other campuses.   
      
   Several Restoration Management Company vans were parked nearby.   
   The company provides cleaning services.   
      
      
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