Ex-Meta worker recognized as suspect in San Mateo household murder-suicide

A former Meta worker is suspected of killing his spouse and twin sons earlier than turning a gun on himself in a ugly murder-suicide in San Mateo, police mentioned Thursday.

Anand Henry, 37, and his spouse, Alice Benziger, 36, have been discovered useless within the rest room of their dwelling on the 4100 block of Alameda de las Pulgas Monday morning, in accordance with the San Mateo Police Division. A 9mm handgun registered to Henry was mendacity on the lavatory flooring by their our bodies.

“Our investigation exhibits Benziger succumbed to a number of gunshot wounds, whereas Henry suffered from a single shot,” police mentioned in a press release.

The dual boys, in the meantime, didn’t die from gunfire. They confirmed no indicators of trauma, and authorities haven’t but decided their reason behind dying.

Police allege that Henry was chargeable for all 4 deaths.

In line with his LinkedIn profile, Henry used to work at Meta as a software program engineer and earlier than that for Google in an analogous position. Meta didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

He was working in synthetic intelligence on the time of his dying, in accordance with his profile. Benziger labored for Zillow as an information scientist, in accordance with her profile on LinkedIn.

The couple each attended Carnegie Mellon College in Pittsburgh.

Police mentioned there was no historical past of violence on the dwelling — the one time they got here to the home was when the household reported seeing a mountain lion within the yard.

However when individuals who knew the household couldn’t get in touch with them over the weekend, police responded to the scene to do a wellness examine, in accordance with the division.

The suspected murder-suicide is believed to have occurred Saturday afternoon, the police mentioned.

“Our investigation into the motive for this tragedy continues. Whereas we are able to’t undo this horrific incident, we wish to share with our group each home violence and psychological well being sources, as a result of there may be assist and/or help on the market, and one thing like this doesn’t must occur once more,” the division mentioned.

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