A Google software engineer brutally beat his wife to death inside their California home and left her “blood-splattered” on Tuesday, prosecutors said.
Liren Chen, 27, was said to be found in a catatonic state with swollen and bruised hands and the crushed body of his wife nearby.
The brutal crime took place in Santa Clara, an upscale city in the heart of Silicon Valley and just a few miles from Google's headquarters.
The newspaper said police were called to conduct a welfare check at Cheng's home around 11 a.m. by a concerned friend who said neither he nor his wife would answer the phone or answer the door. Santa Clara District Attorney.
However, the friend said he saw Chen “on his knees, motionless, staring blankly with his hands in the air” inside the house.
When police went inside, they found his wife dead on the bedroom floor directly behind where Chen was kneeling, officials said.
She had sustained severe blunt force trauma to the head.
Prosecutors said Chen's clothes, legs, arms and hands were “splattered with blood” and his arms were covered in bruises.
His right arm was “extremely swollen and purple in color.”
Chen was charged with murder, but his arraignment was postponed because he was hospitalized.
Mr. Chen and his wife, identified by multiple news outlets as Xuanyi Yu, both worked for the tech giant.
“We are shocked and deeply saddened by what happened to Ms. Xuanyi,” Google spokeswoman Bailey Thomson told the Post in a statement.
“Our thoughts are with her family at this time and we remain committed to providing support to them and our colleagues as they process this tragic news.”
According to his LinkedIn profile, Chen is a software engineer who worked on Google's YouTube Shorts recommendation algorithm.
According to their LinkedIn pages, Yu and Chen both studied at Tsinghua University in China and the University of California, San Diego.
This shocking murder case made national news in China. world journal coverthe largest Chinese-language newspaper in the United States, highlighted unconfirmed rumors that the killing was related to Google's recent major layoffs.
“While the number of domestic violence deaths has decreased in our county, that alone does not measure the depth and destructiveness of the violence,” District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement.
