Police spoke to shooter

JUST hours before she shot and wounded three people at YouTube headquarters, Nasim Aghdam (pictured) calmly told police who found her sleeping in her car that she was having family problems and had left her home.

During the 20-minute interview with officers early Tuesday, she did not mention being angry with YouTube or having accused the company of suppressing her video posts. She gave no indication she was a threat to herself or others.

“It was a very normal conversation – there was nothing in her behaviour that suggested anything unusual,” said Mountain View Police Chief Max Bosel.

Later that day, she went to a gun range before walking into a courtyard at YouTube’s campus south of San Francisco, where she opened fire with a handgun and wounded three people.

She then killed herself. The sequence of Aghdam’s activities emerged Wednesday as police continued gathering information.

Aghdam’s family later issued a statement outside their home saying they were “in absolute shock and can’t make sense of what has happened”.

Investigators do not believe Aghdam, in her late 30s, targeted anyone in particular.