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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