Google engineer accused of beating wife to death found bloodied with ‘blank stare’

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A Google software program engineer was discovered “spattered with blood” after he allegedly beat his spouse to demise inside their Santa Clara, California house.

Liren Chen, 27, faces a homicide cost within the demise of his spouse whose battered physique was discovered close to him when police responded to the grisly crime scene on 16 January.

Officers arrived on the house on Valley Means round 11am after an acquaintance of Mr Chen and his spouse who was involved for his or her security known as for a welfare verify.

The acquaintance advised officers that Mr Chen was refusing to reply the telephone and the door. He said that he then noticed him “immobile on his knees, had his arms within the air and was staring blankly,” in line with a press launch issued by the prosecutor’s workplace.

Police made their method into the house the place they discovered Mr Chen lined in blood. His proper hand was extraordinarily swollen and purple and he had blood on his clothes, legs, arms, and arms. He additionally had scratches on his arm, authorities stated.

Mr Chen’s spouse’s physique was discovered instantly behind him in the lounge the place he had been standing. She had extreme blunt drive accidents to her head and was pronounced useless on the scene.

The spouse’s identification was not launched by prosecutors, however the San Francisco Normal, citing property data, reported that her identify was Xuanyi Yu and that she additionally labored for Google, in line with her LinkedIn, which has since been modified to say “In Remembrance.”

Property data present that Mr Chen was married to Xuanyi Yu and that the couple owned a house at 714 Valley Means, the place police responded on the night time of the homicide.

In accordance with LinkedIn, Mr Chen has labored at Google since 2020 and attended Tsinghua College in China and the College of California San Diego together with Ms Yu.

Mr Chen was transported to the hospital the place he will likely be arraigned on the homicide cost.

“Home violence deaths have been falling in our county however that doesn’t measure the depth and destructiveness of the violence,” Santa Clara County District Lawyer Jeff Rosen stated in an announcement. “Anybody who feels that they or another person is being abused by their companions, please attain out your native legislation enforcement company. You aren’t alone. We will help.”