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Woman opens fire at YouTube; 3 wounded, shooter dead

Officials investigating it as domestic dispute

By RYAN NAKASHIMA and SUDHIN THANAWALA, Associated Press
Published: April 3, 2018, 1:37pm
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Burlingame Chief of Police Eric Wollman, left, hands a dog named Kimba to a man who wished to remain unidentified but said he worked for YouTube, outside the company's headquarters, in San Bruno, Calif., Tuesday, April 3, 2018. A woman opened fire at YouTube headquarters Tuesday, setting off a panic among employees and wounding several people before fatally shooting herself, police and witnesses said.
Burlingame Chief of Police Eric Wollman, left, hands a dog named Kimba to a man who wished to remain unidentified but said he worked for YouTube, outside the company's headquarters, in San Bruno, Calif., Tuesday, April 3, 2018. A woman opened fire at YouTube headquarters Tuesday, setting off a panic among employees and wounding several people before fatally shooting herself, police and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) Photo Gallery

SAN BRUNO, Calif.  — A woman opened fire with a handgun Tuesday in a courtyard at YouTube headquarters, wounding three people before fatally shooting herself in what is being investigated as a domestic dispute, authorities said.

Terrified employees huddled inside, calling 911, as officers and federal agents swarmed the company’s suburban campus sandwiched between two interstate freeways in the San Francisco Bay Area city of San Bruno.

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