Google engineer, 27, confesses to savagely beating his spouse to loss of life
- Liren Chen admitted to beating spouse Xuanyi Yu, in accordance with court docket paperwork
- Chen, 27, was arrested on January 16 and is charged with homicide
- Both Chen and Yu labored at Google as software program engineers
The Google engineer charged with homicide final week admitted to beating his spouse to loss of life along with his fist of their $2million Santa Clara house, court docket paperwork obtained completely by DailyMail.com reveal.
Police seen that suspect Liren Chen’s proper hand was ‘extremely swollen and purple’ and that he had blood on his clothes, legs, arms and fingers, data reveal.
When fireplace division personnel requested the 27-year-old how he damage his hand, he replied, ‘I punched my wife,’ and instructed them it occurred the prior day, data state.
A good friend of Chen instructed police he’d seen Chen along with his spouse Xuanyi Yu that prior evening, when he joined them for dinner at their home, and that Chen was oddly ‘quiet and staring blankly for much of the evening.’
The good friend instructed police that he was involved about this ‘noticeable change in Chen’s demeanor,’ the report states.
Liren Chen, the Google engineer charged with homicide final week admitted to beating his spouse to loss of life along with his fist of their $2million Santa Clara house, court docket paperwork obtained completely by DailyMail.com reveal.
A good friend of Chen instructed police he’d seen Chen along with his spouse Xuanyi Yu that prior evening, when he joined them for dinner at their $2million Santa Clara home (pictured), and that Chen was oddly ‘quiet and staring blankly for much of the evening.
The friend returned to the house in Santa Clara the next day, January 16, to check on him.
He walked around back and saw Chen through a rear window motionless on his knees with his hands in the air, staring blankly, according to the ‘statement of facts’ filed by police and obtained by DailyMail.com.
Unable to get Chen to reply, the good friend referred to as 911. Officers noticed Chen via the window with blood on his jacket and socks.
He remained unresponsive, prompting them to pressure their approach inside. They took Chen into custody, and located his spouse, a fellow Google engineer, mendacity on the ground in a bed room immediately behind him.
According to police, she had ‘severe blunt force injuries’ to her head. There was additionally blood spatter on the bottom and the again of the door.
Besides the intense bruising and blood on his proper hand and physique, police seen that Chen’s sandals, discovered within the hallway, had been additionally splattered with blood.
When fireplace division personnel requested the 27-year-old how he damage his hand, he replied, ‘I punched my wife,’ and instructed them it occurred ‘yesterday,’ data state.
No weapon was discovered, however the detective who wrote the report acknowledged that Chen apparently used his naked fingers to kill her, ‘striking her in the head repeatedly.’
His spouse, Xuanyi Yu, labored at Google as a software program engineer, was discovered useless with blunt pressure trauma to her head
Flowers had been left on the door of Chen and Yu’s Santa Clara house in Yu’s wake
Chen, who was initially taken to a hospital, stays in custody pending an arraignment on Wednesday.
He and Yu purchased their house at 714 Valley Way in April final spring for $2.05 million, in accordance with property data.
The two-story home, freshly painted with a well-groomed garden and bushes, is located in a quiet residential neighborhood within the Silicon Valley.
A silver BMW SUV was parked Monday within the driveway of the now shuttered home, which had been crawling with crime scene investigators final Tuesday once they arrived within the morning and stayed into the evening.
‘That’s my bed room window proper there,’ subsequent door neighbor Jenny Powell, 43, instructed DailyMail.com. ‘I’m shocked. All this was occurring and I had no thought.’
Powell stated Chen and his spouse had been dwelling there simply since final April with a cat named Cooper and appeared pleasant, bringing her cookies and a card once they moved in.
But the couple largely stored to themselves. Powell’s son, upon listening to in regards to the murder, instructed his mother, ‘You mean the shut-ins next door?’
‘They weren’t right here lengthy they usually didn’t work together with lots of people,’ Powell stated.
Jenny Powell, a neighbor, stated Chen and his spouse had been dwelling there simply since final April with a cat named Cooper and appeared pleasant, bringing her cookies and a card once they moved in
The couple each labored for Google as software program engineers in California
She described the weird scene of getting a dozen police vehicles flooding her block and a CSI truck parked out entrance of her home for the whole day.
Another neighbor, Sylivia Atondo, instructed DailyMail.com that she’d seen the couple just some occasions strolling down the block.
‘They seemed friendly when we saw them, nothing out of the ordinary,’ she stated.
She stated her neighborhood is close-knit and gossipy, so ‘if there was any argument involving neighbors, people around here would talk about it. But there was nothing. That’s why neighbors are utterly shocked.’
Google spokesperson Bailey Tomson instructed The New York Post in an announcement: ‘We are shocked and deeply saddened by what has occurred to Xuanyi.
‘Our ideas are together with her household at the moment, and we are going to work to supply help to them and to co-workers who’re processing this tragic information.’
According to his Linkedin, Chen labored on the YouTube shorts algorithm for Google, whereas Yu’s web page says she was a software program engineer.
Both of them studied in China at Tsinghua University and on the University of California San Diego.
Chen and Yu purchased their house at 714 Valley Way in April final spring for $2.05 million, in accordance with property data
The two-story home, freshly painted with a well-groomed garden and bushes, is located in a quiet residential neighborhood within the Silicon Valley
District Attorney Jeff Rosen stated 911 requires home violence have risen.
He added: ‘Domestic violence deaths have been falling in our county however that doesn’t measure the depth and destructiveness of the violence.
‘Anyone who feels that they or another person is being abused by their companions, please attain out your native legislation enforcement company. You should not alone. We will help.’
