Terror at YouTube

Woman shoots three in gun rampage before killing herself

A WOMAN has opened fire with a handgun in a courtyard at YouTube’s California headquarters, wounding three people before fatally shooting herself in what is being investigated as a domestic dispute, authorities say.

Terrified employees huddled inside, calling 911, as officers and federal agents swarmed the company’s suburban campus in the San Francisco Bay area city of San

Bruno.

YouTube employee Dianna Arnspiger said she was on the building’s second floor when she heard gunshots, ran to a window and saw the shooter on a patio outside.

She said the woman wore glasses and a scarf and was using a “big huge pistol”.

“It was a woman and she was firing her gun. And I just said ‘shooter’ and everybody started running,” Ms Arnspiger said.

She and others hid in a conference room for an hour while another employee repeatedly called 911 for updates.

“It was terrifying,” she said. Authorities gave few details about the shooter or victims, except that the incident was thought to be a domestic dispute.

A 36-year-old man was in critical condition, a 32-yearold woman in serious condition and a 27-year-old woman in fair condition, a spokesman for San Francisco General Hospital said yesterday.

Witnesses described terror before officers arrived and discovered a victim near a front door and then found the shooter several minutes later with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, San Bruno Police Chief Ed Barberini said.

He said two additional gunshot victims were found at an adjacent business minutes later.

Google, which owns the world’s biggest online video website, said the company’s security team worked with authorities to evacuate buildings and was supporting the victims and their families.