🚨 Newly released photos from the apartment of Suchir Balaji, anOpenAI whistleblower found dead in his apartment on November 26, 2023.
The SFPD ruled it a suicide in 14 minutes. Take a look at the photos and decide yourself — suicide or murder?
Warning: Graphic 🧵1/
2/ Suchir Balaji's apartment is relatively orderly through the entrance and lounge area, but rapidly changes as you get closer to where he died.
3/ The kitchen table, strewn with clutter, some of which spilled onto the floor along with pieces of chocolate.
4/ His parents Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurth found Suchir's last meal, a half-eaten ready-meal with brown rice still in the plastic tray, sits on his cluttered desk with a fork and a restaurant receipt.
5/ Massive amounts of blood was pooled next to the bathroom door where his head lay.
If you look closely, you'll see a clump of hair, possibly from a wig, lodged below the bathroom door. Odd... 🤔
6/ Inside the bathroom were drops of blood across the tiles, on the cabinet next to the sink, and on the cabinet handle, on the other side of the room far from where Suchir's body laid.
7/ Also on the floor was a knocked over trash bin and a plastic floss pick.
Dental hygiene — definitely top of mind before one commits a self-check out.
8/ Blood can also be found on the other side of the doorframe from the vast majority of the blood splatter.
9/ Balaji's parents found the gun, a Glock pistol was found near his body, along with a box of 9mm ammunition in his closet.
Conveniently laid out is the record of sale, which show he bought on January 4, 2024.
10/ Balaji, pictured here hiking hear Los Angeles, had just returned from a holiday trip with friends in Southern California.
11/ A week before his death, the @nytimes named Balaji (third from the right) as a "custodian witness" in its copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft.
12/ Given the timing and circumstances surrounding his death — would Suchir Balaji commit a self-checkout? Or could something more nefarious have happened.
Here's what @elonmusk thinks. ⬇️
What about you?
@elonmusk Correction: 2024, not 2023
My brain still thinks I’m in last year. 😅
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