Good Samaritans help YouTube shooting victims in San Bruno

Tuesday, April 3, 2018
SAN BRUNO, Calif. (KGO) -- As gunfire erupted at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno on Tuesday, several employees ran across the street to the Bayhill Shopping Center. It became a safe haven for those who fled, including a few who were injured.

Jesse Pineda was at Carl's Jr. when he helped a woman who was suffering from a leg wound.



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"Got the girl, we put her inside the Carl's Jr. at the side door," he said. "Grabbed a bunch of napkins, put the napkins on her leg. There was another girl, she was shot, she was laying in the courtyard, there's a courtyard with a bunch of tables here, she was laying over here and she was dead."

Denny, who does not want his last name used, works at Hashes & Brews restaurant. He helped two shooting victims.

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"I saw one bleeding in the face," he said. "I told them to come inside the store for safety. The woman that was with them was shot in her lower ankle. I put them in the restaurant and gave them towels, Band-Aids, tried to calm them down."

Denny says one of the victims told him the shootings started in the cafeteria at YouTube.

A reliable source confirms that it was in the cafeteria's outside patio.

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