Cops in San Bruno, California, were given no warning about YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam — even though her family had told a neighboring police department…
Cops in San Bruno, California, were given no warning about YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam — even though her family had told a neighboring police department about her beef with the video-sharing site just hours before she opened fire at its headquarters.
“We did not have any information and were not familiar with what was passed on to any other agency,” San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini told reporters Wednesday, a day after the 38-year-old shot three people at YouTube’s office before killing herself.
Aghdam’s San Diego family had reported their 38-year-old daughter missing and “at risk” over the weekend, and when she showed up early Tuesday in Mountain View, police there called to notify them she’d been found.
When the family realized Mountain View was close to YouTube’s headquarters, the family called the cops back to say she was likely there because she was mad at the company because it took money-generating ads off her videos.
“I called that cop again and told him there’s a reason she went all the way from San Diego to there, so she might do something,” her brother told local ABC affiliate KGTV.
Mountain View police on Wednesday defended their inaction on this intel, saying Aghdam seemed fine when they spoke with her, and her family didn’t give any indication she was violent.
“During our contact with her, she was asked a series of questions including, but not limited to, if she was a danger to herself or others,” the police department wrote on Facebook .
“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. Throughout our entire interaction with her, she was calm and cooperative.”
The cops acknowledged her dad did phone back to discuss her anger at YouTube, but said it didn’t raise any red flags because he was “calm.”
“He did not seem concerned that she was in the area, and wanted to simply let us know that may have been a reason for her move up here. Once again, 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,” the department wrote.
Later that morning, Aghdam traveled to San Bruno and visited a gun range — before heading over to YouTube’s campus and opening fire, police say.
