(Newsworthy.news) – Police in California are investigating the death of a former Facebook/Meta engineer, his data scientist spouse, and their two 4-year-old twins as a possible murder-suicide.
Investigators report that Anand Sujith Henry murdered his boys and then shot his wife, Alice Benzinger, in the tub before killing himself. Police did a welfare check Monday morning and discovered the couple’s bodies inside the residence. A 9mm handgun was found in the bathroom. According to a report, the two young boys did not show any signs of trauma, leading investigators to suspect that they were either strangled or suffocated.
One eyewitness informed local media that a grandparent requested the welfare check of the kids as she could not contact the family.
There was no indication of forced entry, according to the San Mateo police statement. The police were convinced that the individual responsible was found inside the residence, and it seemed to have been an isolated event. There was no threat to the public.
Detectives are still interviewing family members and witnesses in their quest to piece together the crime and identify a probable motivation. Police say they had been summoned to the residence on many occasions.
Before co-founding an AI company named Logits in 2023, Henry spent eight years at Google and seventeen months at Meta/Facebook as a software engineering manager. His social media accounts reveal that he trained at Adobe Systems and worked for Salesforce in the past. Alice Priyanka Benziger, born in Kerala, India, in 1987 was a data science manager at Zillow.
According to court documents, they reportedly filed for divorce in December 2016 but never went through with it. Instead, the couple relocated to their San Mateo house in 2020 to raise their four-year-old twins, Noah and Nathan.
According to an Indian media outlet, the killing follows an identical event in Massachusetts in January, in which Rakesh Kamal (57) shot and killed his wife and 18-year-old daughter before taking his own life.
As a result of financial difficulties that threatened their lavish lifestyle in their $5 million suburban house, the Kamals disbanded their co-founded education systems firm, EduNova, in 2021.
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