Shooting at YouTube – level 2

09-04-2018 07:00

A woman entered YouTube offices in Northern California and opened fire with a handgun. She wounded three people; one of them critically and then shot herself and died.

The shooter was 39-year-old YouTuber Nasim Aghdam who was born in Iran and lived in California. She made videos about veganism and healthy lifestyles.

The police believe that she was angry at YouTube. She said that YouTube demonetised her videos and filtered her channels so people could not watch her videos.

Difficult words: wound (injure, hurt), demonetise (remove ads from next to a video – the YouTuber cannot make money), channel (a person’s YouTube website).

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