Outside YouTube, this Carl's Jr. employee made a tourniquet from a bungee cord to help a bleeding woman

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Show Caption Hide Caption Witness describes shooting at YouTube HQ A YouTube employee says she saw a woman open fire at the company's headquarters in Northern California. (April 3)

SAN BRUNO — The work day started like many others for Michael Finney.

He arrived in the morning to start his shift at Carl’s Jr. just opposite YouTube headquarters. There were fries to prepare, drink machines to check.



But shortly after lunch, the world got darker. A multitude of shots rang out just as he was taking a bathroom break, an area that was effectively sound proof. When he reemerged, chaos reigned as customers and employees swarmed around a diminutive figure.



“I came out and that’s when I saw her,” he says, referring to a shocked woman who had stumbled into the restaurant from the nearby YouTube campus with a gunshot wound to her calf.



Instead of panicking, Finney raced in to the restaurant office in search of something that he could use to help stop the bleeding. He found a green bungee cord, about a foot long, and returned to help the woman who had been caught in the gunfire at the tech company campus.

In this town about 13 miles south of San Francisco, police said a female suspect died of apparent suicide after opening fire, injuring four people and leaving a chaotic scene as hundreds of employees fled the building.

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Finney gets shy when asked to describe the details of his assistance.



“I really don’t want to talk about it, all I was trying to do was stay professional, you know I have a job and I represent the store,” he says, fingering his name badge on his Carl’s Jr. shirt.



He says he is hoping to work his way up into management although eventually he would love to go to college, possibly for automotive repair.



“I have an old Honda I bought for $1,000 and it always has a lot of problems but I try and figure out how to fix it,” he says. “It may take a while. I’m nothing right now but I want to work my way up in life.”



Seems like he just took a step in that direction.