The suspect in a gun attack at YouTube’s HQ in California had expressed anger over its treatment of her video postings, media reports say.
Police have named Nasim Aghdam, 39, as the suspect but say they are still investigating a motive.
Ismail Aghdam, the suspect’s father, told the media that she was furious with YouTube because it had stopped paying her for videos she posted on the platform.
YouTube had “stopped everything,” and “she was angry,” Ismail Aghdam told the Associated Press in a telephone interview from his San Diego home.
Aghdam said he reported his daughter missing on Monday after she did not answer her phone for two days.
According to reports, he said the family received a call from Mountain View police around 2am on Tuesday saying they found Nasim sleeping in a car.
He said he warned them she might be headed to YouTube because she “hated” the company.
Nasim Najafi Aghdam’s online profile shows she was a vegan activist who ran a website called NasimeSabz.com, meaning “Green Breeze” in Persian, where she posted about Persian culture and veganism, as well as long passages critical of YouTube.
In a video posted in January 2017, she says YouTube “discriminated and filtered” her content. In the video, Aghdam says her channel used to get lots of views but that after being “filtered” by the company, it received far fewer views.
The suspect reportedly opened fire at the YouTube headquarters injuring three, including a 36-year-old man who local media has reported is believed to be the shooter’s boyfriend.
Two other women were also shot.
Aghdam was found dead at the scene of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
