Suspected female shooter dead
SAN BRUNO, CALIF. • Three people were wounded in a shooting around midday Tuesday at YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., officials said, sending employees fleeing the office complex in terror and drawing a flurry of heavily armed law enforcement officers to the scene.
Police said they believe that a woman found dead inside the building from a self-inflicted gunshot wound is the shooter.
The company’s employees described a chaotic and disorienting scene inside as people struggled to figure out what had happened and leave the building safely.
Vadim Lavrusik, who works on the company’s product team, tweeted that he heard shots and saw people running as he waited with a group of co- workers inside a room they had barricaded themselves in. Todd Sherman, a product manager at the company, described the frightful moments evacuating the building.
“I looked down and saw blood drips on the floor and stairs,” he wrote on Twitter.
“Peaked around for threats and then we headed downstairs and out the front.”
Police Chief Ed Barberini said that officers discovered two of the victims inside the YouTube building, and two at a nearby business.
A worker from a nearby Carl’s Jr. told KTVU that a woman with an injury to her leg required a tourniquet made from a bungee cord.
Barberini said that the four victims were taken to nearby hospitals.
A spokesman for San Francisco General Hospital told reporters that the hospital had received three wounded patients: a 37- year- old man in critical condition, a 32- year- old woman was in serious condition, and a 27- year- old woman in fair condition. A trauma surgeon at the hospital planned to issue another briefing in about an hour, the spokesperson said.
Images and videos shared on social media appeared to show workers leaving the building, with their hands above their heads, and police rushing in, while other l aw enforcement officers massed outside.
Barberini said that a few hundred workers had been evacuated from the building as officers worked to make sure it was completely clear. Google, which owns YouTube, said it had asked some workers to shelter in place until further notice.
Police set up a barricade around the large building, as helicopters buzzed overhead.
President Donald Trump said on Twitter that he was briefed on the shooting. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said that it was sending officials from its San Francisco division in response to the reported shooting. Google said in a statement that it was coordinating with law enforcement authorities.