A Chinese engineer at Google pleaded guilty to beating his wife to death with his bare hands
The Chinese engineer at Google, who is suspected of killing his wife, has been transferred from the hospital to prison and will appear in court on Wednesday.
According to the latest media report on January 23, a court document shows that Liren Chen, a Chinese engineer at Google who was charged with murdering his wife last week, admitted that he beat his wife Xuanyi Yu to death with his fist at his home in Santa Clara.
Liren Chen和Xuanyi Yu
According to a previous report by Red Star News, prosecutors had revealed that the police rushed to the scene after receiving a report from a neighbor and found Liren Chen "kneeling on the ground motionless, with her hands in the air and her eyes blank." After police entered the home and detained Liren Chen, Xuanyi Yu's body was found on the bedroom floor with severe blunt force injuries to the head. The floor, walls, and doors of the room were splattered with blood.
Investigators arrived at the scene and noticed that the suspect, Liren Chen, was "extremely swollen and purple" in his right hand, with blood on his clothes, legs, arms and hands, according to police records. When investigators asked the 27-year-old how he had injured his hand, he replied, "I hit my wife" and told them it happened "yesterday." No weapons were found at the scene, and the investigators who wrote the report said Liren Chen apparently killed his wife with his bare hands, "hitting her repeatedly on the head."
According to reports, Liren Chen was initially taken to hospital for treatment and remains in custody pending her appearance in court for arraignment on Wednesday (January 24). According to a report by Southern Metropolis Daily on January 21, Liren Chen has been transferred from the hospital where she was previously in prison.
According to the official website of the District Attorney's Office, the San Francisco Chronicle, etc. on the 19th, local time on Friday, the police in Santa Clara County, California, announced that the 27-year-old man Chen (Liren Chen) had been arrested at home on Tuesday, and he was charged with beating his wife Yu (Xuanyi Yu) to death, and is currently facing murder charges and will be imprisoned for life if convicted. According to the report, the prosecution had initially filed felony charges against Chen, but because he was being treated in the hospital at the time, the hearing was postponed to the 24th.
According to the San Francisco Standard, Google has confirmed that both husband and wife are employees of the company. The media also clarified that earlier some Chinese media in the United States claimed that Chen committed suicide after shooting and killing his wife, and the case is suspected to be related to Google's layoffs, both of which are false news.
Screenshot of the official website of the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office
Source | Observer Network Synthesis