SF Standard just published a story with new facts about the case: https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/19/google-engineer-murder-lir...

Actual title is "Tragic Discovery: Liren Chen and Xuanyi Yu Found Dead in a Los Altos Apartment" and no causal link is made with layoffs whatsoever.

I have an extremely low opinion of Sundar and current batch of tech management but this tragedy shouldn't be pinned on Google layoffs.

Put conspiracy theory that this is related with layoffs aside, the author of the article didn't do a simple fact check.

The mentioned case happened in Santa Clara, the 2 person involved in the Los Altos case are both 66 years old, they are not the 2 Google engineers the author put names in the title. https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/01/16/two-adults-found-dead...

One party in the title is not deceased, there is a felony case against him in Santa Clara Superior Court.

this whole thing is fake news. no reputable news sources mentions any names or their employers. only the Mercury News and the Mountain View Voice mention that two bodies were found in Los Altos on the 16 (before the YouTube layoffs).