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Furious at YouTube, passionate about fitness and veganism: Shooter left warning signs, questions

In one video, Nasim Najafi Aghdam refers to herself as a "ninja" before making a series of odd, stunted motions spliced between clips from the reality series "America's Got Talent." In another video, she sports a blond pixie-cut wig while mocking people who choose to eat meat.

In yet another video, the rail-thin and raven-haired Aghdam says in Farsi that she has no "specific physical or mental illness," but says she lives "in a planet that is filled with illness, and disorder and perversion and injustice."

Police are still trying to determine exactly what led the 39-year-old San Diego woman to bring a gun to YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., where she shot and wounded three people Tuesday before killing herself. But the woman's fury with YouTube - which she believed was intentionally suppressing her quirky collection of

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