120: The YouTube Shooter
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Ghost Town
3.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On April 3rd, 2018 Nasim Najafi Aghdam, dissatisfied with the company's policies, opened fire at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, CA.
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| 0:00.0 | Video Killed the Video Star. |
| 0:02.0 | I'm Rebecca Leib. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Jason Horton. |
| 0:05.0 | And this is Ghost Town. The attacker that has been identified as the woman that came here and opened |
| 0:25.4 | fire on YouTube has been identified as a woman that was making YouTube videos. |
| 0:30.2 | It was her father that told authorities warning them that she hated the company and the family before this shooting happened reached out to authorities asking them to check on her before this shooting took place. |
| 0:42.0 | The shots rang out just before 1 PM Tuesday, |
| 0:45.4 | lunch hour for hundreds of workers at YouTube's headquarters. We have a report of |
| 0:50.2 | subject with a gun. They heard 7 to 8 shots being fired. This will be from the |
| 0:55.9 | YouTube building. On April 3rd 2018, Naseim Agdom 38 went on a shooting spree at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California, |
| 1:07.2 | injuring three people before turning the gun on herself. A 36-year- old man was injured and two women age 32 and 27 and there was another |
| 1:18.1 | injury of somebody fleeing and hurting their ankle but there was there was three more critical injuries. |
| 1:27.0 | And this one is, we talked about doing this one and then I put it off and then I revisit it again |
| 1:32.1 | and I think, because it is and then I revisit it again and I think because it is pretty I mean it's |
| 1:35.1 | pretty dark yeah very recent which is kind of not my jam when it comes to these I |
| 1:41.3 | like things a little more on the historic side but this one |
| 1:47.3 | kind of felt a little bit personal to me because of all the work I've done with YouTube over 11 years. |
| 1:55.7 | And I might not have found myself |
| 1:57.9 | doing something like this podcast, if not for YouTube. |
| 2:00.9 | And the reasons Nasim Agnam did this is very resonant with me |
| 2:08.0 | in the same way that people in Hollywood, |
| 2:12.0 | when you know success and failure, you put so much into something and you feel like it's being taken away. |
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