Google engineer 'catatonic and spattered in blood after beating wife to death'
A man has been charged with murder after he was found "spattered with blood" in a catatonic state, "staring blankly" into space near his wife's dead body inside their multimillion-dollar home.
27-year-old Liren Chen, who works for Google, was arrested on January 16 at a home in Santa Clara, California for the murder of his Google Engineer wife. Chen was charged with murder and faces prison time if convicted, however, his arraignment was postponed after he was hospitalised.
Santa Clara officers arrived at the $2 million (£1.574M) home at around 11am on January 16 after being called to perform a welfare check on Valley Way. When officers arrived at the scene, an acquaintance of Chen "expressed concern about Chen and his wife", according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney, who added: "Chen was refusing to answer his phone or his door."
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Liren Chen, 27, has been charged with the murder of his wife after he was found catatonic and splattered with blood (Linkedin)It's said the friend could see Chen inside the home "motionless on his knees" with "his hands in the air" and "staring blankly". Officers found Chen with an "extremely swollen and purple" right hand, and "blood on his clothing, legs, arms, and hands and scratches on his arm."
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They found his wife "deceased on the floor" in the bedroom behind where Chen had been, she "had severe blunt force injuries to her head". His wife is believed to be Xuanyi Yu, a Google Engineer, though she has not formally been identified by authorities at this time.
Property records show Chen and Ms Yu had bought the Valley Way home in April last year for $2.05M (£1.6M). According to Ms Yu's LinkedIn profile, she worked as a Software Engineer at Google, a job which she started in June 2021. Prior to this she worked as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon full time after completing a three-month internship with the company in 2019.
She gained her bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2018 before going on to study at the University of California, San Diego, completing a master's degree in Computer Science. Chen's profile shows he was a Software Engineer working on YouTube Shorts with Google, a role he started in March 2020.
Chen also studied at Tsinghua University before going on to complete a Master's degree in Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego.
Google spokesperson Bailey Tomson said in a statement: "We are shocked and deeply saddened by what's happened to Xuanyi. Our thoughts are with her family at this time, and we will work to provide support to them and to co-workers who are processing this tragic news."
"Domestic violence deaths have been falling in our county, but that does not measure the depth and destructiveness of the violence," said District Attorney Jeff Rosen, noting 911 calls about domestic violence have risen. "Anyone who feels that they or someone else is being abused by their partners, please reach out [to] your local law enforcement agency. You are not alone. We can help."
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