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Once Upon A Crime

YouTube Mayhem: The YouTube Headquarters Shooting

Once Upon A Crime

Esther Ludlow

Truecrime, History, True Crime, Crime, Criminals, Criminology, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A young woman who creates a YouTube channel to advocate for animal rights and veganism becomes disgruntled with the social media platform when she feels she is being targeted for discrimination. But, no one imagined that her anger would spiral into a random act of violence.  Resources:  “Sleeping in Car and Visiting Gun Range: How YouTube Attacker Spent Final Hours” by Daisuke Wakabayashi, Matthew Haag and Elizabeth Dias for The New York Times, April 4, 2018. MVPD Statement Regarding Officers’ Interaction with Woman Responsible for YouTube Shooting, City of Mountain View News Details.  “YouTube shooter was angry about company’s “Policies and Practices’: The Latest” by Aric Jenkins, Katy Steinmetz, and Mahita Gajanan for Time Magazine, April 4, 2018.  The Case Files: Nasim Najafi Aghdam by Virginia Simmons, blog post dated March 25, 2021, Ontic.com.  Clip from Mountain View Police Department bodycam footage can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmpjNUWpLBU Links: Once Upon a Crime Facebrook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1730325570622505

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0:00.0

This podcast details true crime cases.

0:03.0

It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.

0:07.0

It is not intended for children.

0:09.0

Listener discretion is advised. Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

0:24.0

This month I'm covering cases connected to the social media platform YouTube.

0:29.0

This week not only is a YouTube creator involved in a crime, but YouTube itself becomes the target of violence.

0:35.8

A young woman who creates a YouTube channel to advocate for animal rights becomes disgruntled

0:41.6

with the social media platform,

0:43.6

when she feels she's being targeted for discrimination.

0:47.0

But no one could imagine that her anger

0:49.2

would spiral into a random act of violence. This is the last chapter in the series,

0:54.3

YouTube mayhem, is male of On March 31st, 2018, Ismail Agdom phoned the San Diego County Sheriff's

1:16.9

Department to report his daughter missing. He'd not heard from 38-year-old

1:21.0

Nassim Agdom for a few days. He was concerned because she had never

1:25.2

left home before without letting anyone know, and no one had been able to reach her on her

1:29.6

cell phone. The officer who spoke with Mr. Ogden asked if there were any factors that might make

1:37.2

his adult daughter at risk, medical conditions, history of mental illness, etc. He said there weren't, so the officer simply took a

1:45.1

description of his daughter, her car, and license plate number and entered it into a

1:49.2

database. Mr. Ogden was told that if there were any hits on his daughter's description or that of her car, he'd be notified.

1:57.0

About two days later at 140 a.m. on April 3rd, two officers with the Mount View Police Department ran the license plate of a white

2:04.1

Pontiac, found parked inside a Walmart parking lot.

2:08.3

Mountain View is a city located 741 miles north of San Diego and about 30 minutes south of San Francisco.

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