WARNING, A FEW GRAPHIC CRIME SCENE PHOTOS DEPICTED BELOW!
New disclosed evidence indicates that ChatGPT whistleblower Suchir Balaji whose suspicious death was ruled a suicide within 40 minutes, is actually a murder. I suspected just as much based upon the available evidence at the time and noted this was a sus suicide and possible murder. I declared these suspicions in a HIVE Snap posted December 14th, 2024 titled “OPEN-AI TECH WHISTLEBLOWER MURDERED?”
https://peakd.com/hive-124838/@daretodefy/re-peaksnaps-soi230
On December 27th I updated that Snap post with a comment update about the family arranging for an independent autopsy and how they were working with an attorney to force SFPD to reopen the case.
This brand new Daily Mail article shows photos of the actual crime scene and suppressed case details such as:
The tech prodigy, 26, who just a month earlier blew the whistle on OpenAI's dubious methods of training ChatGPT, shot himself in the head. Case closed.
Photos obtained by DailyMail.com show blood was pooled next to the bathroom door where his head lay, but also splattered around the bathroom far from the body. Lying on the bloodstains were one of Balaji's wireless earbuds and two mysterious tufts of what appeared to be synthetic hair, like from a wig.
Photos obtained by DailyMail.com show blood was pooled next to the bathroom door where his head lay, but also splattered around the bathroom far from the body.
Blood both inside the bathroom, and pooled on the floor outside the door where his head was found.
Balaji's bedroom was also in upheaval, and the other wireless earbud was found on the floor near the entrance, with blood stains and hair strands on it.
His home, in a high-end building on Buchanan Street in San Francisco's Mint Hill neighbourhood, was also ransacked, 'like someone was searching for something'.
His 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. Worse still is the kitchen table, strewn with clutter, some of which spilled onto the floor along with pieces of chocolate.
His 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.
'The disturbed surroundings supports possibility of fights/resistance, which need to be corroborated with other forensic evidence,' UCLA pathology professor Dinesh Rao wrote.
Rao wrote that some of the drops of blood appeared to have fallen while the victim was sitting, or possibly crawling, and others while standing. Some of the blood could have been coughed up. Also on the floor was a knocked over trash bin and a plastic floss pick.
An independent autopsy report received by Suchir’s parents showed that there was no gunshot residue found on Suchir’s hands.
Suchir’s mother Poornima Ramarao said the private autopsy she paid for showed the bullet was shot from above, entering above his nose and lodging just below the back of his skull. She claimed the bullet completely missed his brain, and he instead bled to death at the bathroom door, and had a second blunt trauma wound on the side of his head. UCLA pathology professor Dinesh Rao wrote in his report that Balaji likely bled out for 15 to 30 minutes.
Balaji's parents theorise that their son was attacked from behind while he was listening to music and cleaning his teeth, and his head smashed into the wall or cabinet. After fighting back, he was pulled up onto his knees or sitting down, and shot in the head. As the wound wasn't fatal, he survived for some minutes and got out of the bathroom before dying from blood loss.'A 10-minute struggle, probably,' his father said. His parents believe the apartment was ransacked because the killer was looking for a storage device that had damning evidence on it.
Rao also noted the lack of a suicide note and the 'widely distributed and pattern of blood splatters' were 'most unlikely in victims whose fatality/unconsciousness is instantaneous' as in a suicide by gunshot.
Suchir’s parents reported that SFPD decided within 40 minutes of viewing the crime scene and with NO AUTOPSY performed ruled his death a suicide and handed them the keys to his apartment. A week before his sudden untimely death, the NYT named him as a 'custodian witness' in its copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. His mother believes that implied he had more damaging information up his sleeve, and was targeted for it. Suchir Balaji wasn't done going public, either. Days after his death, his phone rang and his parents picked it up. On the other end was an Associated Press reporter who didn't know Balaji was dead, and was calling to schedule an interview he agreed to do. 'Maybe he had some new information to share with AP and somebody who doesn't want that liability to them, so they target him,' Suchir's father Ramamurthy said. 'After that phone call we got suspicious. We were just finding so many things suddenly happened and it was kind of frozen for us what to do next step. 'So then we got this call, then we thought, oh, this is something totally big, this has to be investigated.'
Suchir Balaji's parents have three main reasons they believe he couldn't have killed himself - the crime scene, the timing of his death after going public, and that he had too much to life for. 'There's no depression, he didn't have a suicide note or anything, he was financial stable, he has a good friends circle, going around having a good time,' his father said. 'If I'm depressed usually I'm isolated watching movies and drinking – but he didn't do that.' 'The way I talked to him that night, he didn't show any stress, he was very cool and normal and there was no strain in his voice. 'He takes care of himself, he goes to the gym, he's health-conscious, he goes with friends to so many movies – he's not a person to get depressed, he's outgoing he had plans for his own startup.
Suchir had just returned from a holiday to Los Angeles with some friends, who were former colleagues or worked in tech, for his birthday a day before his alleged suicide. Visually note his smile in this photo along with statements from his father on Suchir's immediate future plans noted in the newspaper article.
Balaji's gun, a Glock pistol that records show he bought on January 4, 2024, was found near his body, along with a box of 9mm ammunition in his closet with six rounds missing. One of the rounds was found in the gun case, which included the record of sale, another four elsewhere, and one unaccounted for.
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Suchir’s mother Poornima Ramarao has organised a GoFund Me in honour of their son and pursuing justice and reopening the investigation for her son’s likely homicidal death here:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-suchir-balaji
