A Google software engineer was left “bloodied” Tuesday after he brutally beat his wife to death in their California home, prosecutors said.
Liren Chen, 27, was allegedly found in a catatonic state with swollen and bruised hands and the mangled body of his wife nearby.
The violent crime took place in Santa Clara, an affluent city in the heart of Silicon Valley and just a few miles from Google’s headquarters.
Police were called around 11 a.m. to conduct a welfare check at his home by a concerned friend who said neither Chen nor his wife would answer their phones or the door, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney.
The friend, however, could see Chen inside the house “kneeling motionless, raising his hands in the air and staring blankly.”
Police went inside and found his wife dead on the floor in the bedroom directly behind where Chen was kneeling, officials said.
He had suffered severe blunt force trauma to his head.
Chen’s clothes, legs, arms and hands were “spattered with blood” and his arms were covered in scratches, according to the DA.
Liren Chen was found “covered in blood” after beating his wife to death, prosecutors said. Liren Chen/LinkedIn
His right arm was “very swollen and purple.”
Chen was charged with murder, but his trial was postponed because he was hospitalized.
Both Chen and his wife — identified by various outlets as Xuanyi Yu — work for the mega-tech company.
Chen and his wife work as engineers at Google. Reuters
“We are shocked and deeply saddened by what happened to Xuanyi,” Google spokeswoman Bailey Tomson told The Post in a statement.
“Our thoughts are with his family at this time, and we will work to provide support to them and to our colleagues who are processing this tragic news.”
According to his LinkedIn profile, Chen is a software engineer who works on the YouTube Shorts recommendation algorithm for Google.
The brutal killing landed on the front page of the World Journal, the largest Chinese-language newspaper in the US. EP World Journal
Both Yu and Chen studied in China at Tsinghua University and at the University of California San Diego, according to their LinkedIn pages.
The shocking killing made national news in China and landed on the front page of The World Journal, the largest Chinese-language newspaper in the US, which highlighted unconfirmed rumors that the killing was linked to Google’s recent round of mass layoffs.
“Domestic violence deaths have fallen in our county but that does not measure the depth and devastation of violence,” District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement.
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