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A man has been charged with murdering his Google Engineer wife after he was found ‘staring blankly’ into space with her dead body nearby.
Police arrested Liren Chen, 27, who also works for Google, on January 16 at a home on Valley Way, Santa Clara.
He has been charged with murder but his arraignment was postponed after he was hospitalized.
Chen was found ‘spattered with blood’ with an ‘extremely swollen and purple arm’ kneeling outside a bedroom where his wife was ‘deceased on the floor’.
His wife, thought to be Xuanyi Yu, had ‘severe blunt force injuries to her head’, according to Santa Clara District Attorney.
Liren Chen, 27, has been accused of murdering his wife at their home in Santa Clara
His wife, Xuanyi Yu, worked at Google as a software engineer, she was found dead with blunt force trauma to her head
Santa Clara police officers went to the house around 11am on January 16, after receiving a welfare call.
When they arrived, a friend of Chen told officers he was ‘concerned’ about the couple and said Chen was ‘refusing to answer his phone or his door’.
He told officers he could see Chen inside the home where he was ‘motionless on his knees, had his hands in the air and was staring blankly’.
The officers went into the house and arrested Chen.
The district attorney’s office said they found his wife’s body in the bedroom ‘directly behind’ where Chen had been standing.
‘Officers located the victim deceased on the floor. She had severe blunt force injuries to her head,’ they said.
‘Chen’s right hand was extremely swollen and purple. He had blood on his clothing, legs, arms, and hands and v=onepage&q=red%20boost&f=false scratches on his arm.’
Chen and Yu bought a home at 714 Valley Way in April last year for $2.05 million, according to property records.
District Attorney Jeff Rosen said 911 calls for domestic violence have risen.
He added: ‘Domestic violence deaths have been falling in our county but that does not measure the depth and destructiveness of the violence.
The couple bought a $2 million home in Santa Clara last April according to property records
The couple both worked for Google as software engineers in California
‘Anyone who feels that they or someone else is being abused by their partners, please reach out your local law enforcement agency. You are not alone. We can help.’
Google spokesperson Bailey Tomson told The New York Post in a statement: ‘We are shocked and deeply saddened by what has 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.’
According to his Linkedin, Chen worked on the YouTube shorts algorithm for Google, while Yu’s page says she was a software engineer.
Both of them studied in China at Tsinghua University and at the University of California San Diego.
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