Police Investigating Reports of Shooter at YouTube Campus

• April 03 2018
• Mark Bergen

Staff at Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube reported that there is an active shooter at the company’s headquarters in San Bruno, California. San Bruno police said they received reports of an shooter at YouTube and tweeted that there is police activity at 901 Cherry Ave.…

Staff at Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube reported that there is an active shooter at the company’s headquarters in San Bruno, California. San Bruno police said they received reports of an shooter at YouTube and tweeted that there is police activity at 901 Cherry Ave., YouTube’s headquarters.

Vadim Lavrusik, a product manager at YouTube, wrote on Twitter that he and coworkers were barricaded inside a room, before later tweeting “Safe. Got evacuated. Outside now.” A Google spokeswoman didn’t immediately respond for request to comment. Google hasn’t communicated anything about the incident yet to employees, according to multiple people at the company.

A San Bruno Police Department representative said they are responding to the reports. “We are trying figure that out now and are dealing with emergency calls only now," the representative said.

San Bruno is a city 11 miles south of downtown San Francisco which is adjacent to San Francisco International Airport. The city has been the home of YouTube, the world’s largest online video site, for more than a decade. It unofficially marks the beginning of Silicon Valley and is also home to a major Walmart e-commerce office.

A Google employee at a nearby complex to the YouTube office said several police sirens were heard around the office and that colleagues inside of the building are texting them updates. Videos and photos posted to Snapchat show police officers running into the YouTube offices. People were also seen evacuating the offices in a line with their hands up in the air, according to the videos.

— With assistance by Ian King, and Mark Gurman