Early reports of an active shooter at YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, Calif. broke Tuesday afternoon. Employees and the San Bruno Police Department tweeted about the incident but few details are available yet. Read The San Francisco Chronicle’s live coverage here.
Update 1:40 p.m. Google released the following statement about the incident on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/981267668350115840
Update 2:40 p.m. In a press conference, San Bruno Chief of Police Ed Barberini confirmed that four people on YouTube’s campus were transported to the hospital with gunshot wounds following the shooting around 12:46 p.m. Their condition is not clear, but several hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area have reported that they have accepted patients from the shooting.
One woman is dead of what the police believe to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and the police also believe that person was the shooter, according to Chief Barberini.
Google also released an updated statement:
https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/981283098443751424
Update 4:45 p.m. Google CEO Sundar Pichai issued a statement:
https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/981314129725079553
Other tech leaders shared their thoughts on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/981311629022314496
https://twitter.com/dkhos/status/981300761039536128
https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/981288338878550016
https://twitter.com/jack/status/981303114333487104
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