In recent days, news about "Google engineer and his wife both died" have continued to flood the screen.
However, this matter was reversed on January 20.
Previously, there were media reports that a young couple from China, both of whom worked for Google, could not bear the pressure of layoffs. The husband shot and killed his wife and then committed suicide.
At that time, many people still felt regretful. After being laid off, they could still find a job or return to their country. Why should they be so reluctant to die together?
Comprehensive latest reports, as well as information disclosed by people who know the inside story, have clarified four misinformation points:
1. Chen was not dead.
The man was not dead. On the contrary, his wife was also killed by him.
The men are Liren Chen (Chen) and xuanyi Yu (Yu), both of whom are 27 years old.
The incident happened on January 16, local time.
On this day, a friend could not get in touch with Chen and Yu. There was no response when he sent messages and refused to answer calls.
So the friend rushed directly to Chen Yu’s single-family house in Santa Clara to check. He heard a noise inside the house, but no one answered the door.
A friend had a premonition that something was wrong, so he called 911 to call the police.
After the police arrived, my friend entered the house with the police. Unexpectedly, he saw a scary scene.
In the room, Chen was kneeling on the ground with his legs raised and his hands raised in a gesture of surrender.
Chen is not only not dead, but still alive and well, he is also a murderer.
2. The deceased was not killed by a gunshot.
When the police arrived, they saw Chen’s eyes dull and his expression calm. There were blood stains on his shirt, arms, legs and socks.
Beside Chen, his wife Yu was lying on the ground with a serious head injury. The police came to investigate and found that she was no longer breathing.
There were blood stains everywhere on the wardrobe, walls, and floor in the room. All signs indicated that Yu had been treated brutally before his death.
However, no murder weapon was seen in the house.
When questioned by the police, Chen replied, "I punched my wife."
At this time, Chen's right hand was swollen and turned purple. It was obvious that he beat his wife Yu to death with his own fist.
3. The man and woman were not laid off.
Recently, many news reported that Google intends to lay off multiple departments involving hundreds of employees for various reasons.
On the same day as January 10, more than a thousand Google employees received emails stating that they were fired.
In the following days, the scale of layoffs continued to expand.
Therefore, there are rumors that Chen Yu spent US$2.05 million to buy a house locally in April 2023.
Nowadays, both husband and wife have been laid off, and the financial pressure is great. They quarreled, which led to the murder.
However, a reporter interviewed Chen’s Google colleagues, who said that both Chen and Yu were still employees of Google and had not been laid off.
has not been laid off, which means there is no financial pressure issue involved. So why did Chen kill his wife?
The real reason why Chen killed his wife
According to LinkedIn information, both Chen and Yu studied in the Department of Electronic Information Engineering at Tsinghua University in Beijing from 2014 to 2018. After
graduated from the undergraduate program, the two studied together for a master's degree in computer science at the University of California, San Diego. After graduating from
with a master's degree, Chen successfully joined Google in March 2020 as a software engineer.
Yu used to work as an engineer at Amazon, and also joined Google in June 2021, also working as a software engineer.
On November 22, 2022, Chen and Yu got married.
Both are young and promising. From school uniforms to wedding dresses, this is a couple that is envied by many people.
When they bought a house and moved in in April 2023, a neighbor confirmed that Chen and Yu were friendly and polite. They were both very polite. They also gave cookies to their neighbors.
Chen’s ex-girlfriend also spoke out, saying that Chen has always been a very gentle and friendly person, and she had never heard of him having any problems with domestic violence before.
Chen Yu’s classmates also confirmed that they often shared photos of skiing and rock climbing in their WeChat Moments, and they looked very affectionate.
However, some students said that Yu has been posting less content related to Chen since the second half of 2023.
Perhaps, the breakdown of the relationship started at this time.
According to relevant sources familiar with the situation, Chen and Yu are still Chinese nationals.
A local Chinese acquaintance revealed that Chen and Yu often quarreled before the incident.
Since the house was purchased by the woman, during the quarrel, the woman first threw Chen’s things out of the house and asked him to leave, and then called the police, claiming that she had been subjected to domestic violence.
Yu wanted to use this method to teach Chen a lesson, but because Chen was worried that this would affect his naturalization, the two sides quarreled and the conflict became more and more intense.
eventually led to this tragedy.
After the incident, the local prosecutor characterized the case as a "domestic violence death incident."
According to the local official website, Chen has been charged with homicide and is not eligible for bail.
Chen graduated from Chengdu No. 7 Middle School and is an outstanding student that the school is proud of. His photo is still hanging on the school's bulletin board.
Yu is excellent both in character and academics, with a score of 702 in the college entrance examination. He was the top scorer in science in Songyuan City, Jilin Province in 2014.
Two such outstanding people were admitted to Tsinghua University together, fell in love, graduated, went to work abroad, and entered Google.
In the first half of their lives, their success was smooth and smooth, but it was beyond the reach of countless others.
However, it ended up like death and imprisonment, which is really sad.
