Police identify suspect as animal rights activist Nasim Aghdam

  04 April 2018    Read: 2269
Police identify suspect as animal rights activist Nasim Aghdam

The woman suspected of carrying out a shooting at YouTube's headquarters in California on Tuesday has been named by local police as 39-year-old San Diego resident Nasim Aghdam. 

Local law enforcement officers said the attacker opened fire with a handgun and wounded three people before fatally shooting herself.

A fourth person injured their ankle while fleeing. 

Aghdam was quoted in a 2009 story in The San Diego Union-Tribune about a protest by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals against the use of pigs in military trauma training. She dressed in a wig and jeans with drops of painted “blood” on them, holding a plastic sword at the demonstration outside the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base. 

“For me, animal rights equal human rights,” Aghdam told The Union-Tribune at the time. 


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