() At least four people were injured, one of them critically, in a shooting at YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., on Tuesday afternoon, the police said. The shooter, who the police said was a woman, died from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Brent Andrew, a spokesman for San Francisco General Hospital, said at a news conference that the hospital had received three patients: a 36-year-old man in critical condition, a 32-year-old woman in serious condition and a 27-year-old woman in fair condition. The condition of the fourth victim, and what hospital he or she was at, was not clear.
Outside the YouTube headquarters, armed police officers waded into a crowd of 200 or so employees who had evacuated to a nearby parking lot. The police asked for employees who had witnessed something firsthand to come forward, and about two dozen people, some visibly distraught, walked over to the officers.
Many employees said they had initially thought the episode was a fire drill. Others said they ran when people started shouting that there was a shooter.
Vadim Lavrusik, a YouTube employee who formerly worked for The New York Times, tweeted just before 1 p.m. that there was an “active shooter at YouTube HQ” and that he had “heard shots and saw people running while at my desk.” He said that he was barricaded inside a room with co-workers, but moments later tweeted that he had been safely evacuated.
Active shooter at YouTube HQ. Heard shots and saw people running while at my desk. Now barricaded inside a room with coworkers.
— Vadim Lavrusik (@Lavrusik) April 3, 2018
Footage broadcast by CNN showed people leaving the building in single file with their hands raised above their heads. Separate footage showed a large crowd of people lining up to be frisked, one by one, by the police.
Standing outside the office on Tuesday afternoon, Zachary Vorhies, a senior software engineer at YouTube, told the local ABC affiliate that he had been on his computer when he heard gunshots and then someone yelling, “Come and get me.” When he went over, Mr. Vorhies said, he saw a man lying on the floor with blood on his abdomen, and the shooter about 25 feet away.
There are secured doors in the building, Mr. Vorhies said, but the shooting happened in an outdoor courtyard area that was not particularly secure.
By 2:15 p.m., President Trump had been briefed on the shooting, and Cameron Rogers Polan, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Division of the F.B.I., said in an email that the agency was in contact with the San Bruno police. The San Francisco division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives tweeted that it, too, was respondingto the shooting.
Google, which owns YouTube, said on Twitter that it was “coordinating with authorities” and would provide more information when it was available.
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