Thread by @5149jamesli

🚨 New forensic findings have just been released in the death of Suchir Balaji — a whistleblower against OpenAI.

Police ruled it a suicide.

But the evidence just uncovered tells a very different story: drugging, a possible second bullet, and a botched autopsy. 🧵1/

2/ On November 26, 2024, San Francisco PD informed Suchir Balaji’s family he had died by suicide.

According to the family's attorney, an autopsy was completed just "40 minutes" after arriving at the scene — no interviews, no toxicology report, no ballistic analysis.

Why? 🤔

3/ This is the last known footage of Suchir Balaji before his death.

Multiple other CCTV cameras in his apartment complex — including one covering a secondary entrance — were mysteriously disconnected around the time he died. 🤨

4/ Body cam footage shows SFPD officers touching and examining the crime scene without gloves — a blatant breach of protocol.

They failed to collect fingerprints, left blood-stained evidence unsecured, and one even quipped that the scene looked like a "homicide".

5/ When a private autopsy was conducted, it revealed critical evidence the first had completely missed — or ignored.

First, CT scans showed a second metallic fragment lodged in his skull — in other words, a possible second bullet, which is extremely uncommon in a suicide.

6/ The toxicology report raised even more red flags.

Suchir had a blood alcohol level of 0.178% — well above the legal limit.

He also had extremely high levels (in excess of 50,000 ng/mL) of GHB in his system, a "date rape" drug commonly used to incapacitate victims.

7/ Based on those reports, Suchir would have been heavily impaired — possibly unconscious — at the time of death.

Also, the gun found at the scene had no blood, no tissue, no back spatter. His hands didn’t either. For a point-blank shot to the head, that’s virtually impossible.

8/ The crime scene also told a different story from the official narrative.

Rooms were disturbed. Furniture was moved. Blood spatter patterns suggested Suchir had been standing, crawling, and possibly struggling before the fatal shot.

Does this like a suicide to you?

9/ There was no suicide note. No history of prior attempts. No recent crisis.

In fact, Suchir was thriving. He was on the verge of launching his own venture — and had also received numerous job offers offering multi-million dollar salaries.

10/ We’re in an AI arms race — and at the center is Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI.

Suchir Balaji was a whistleblower with info that could disrupt it. Then he turned up dead.

We need answers. We need accountability. We need justice.