San Francisco authorities said a case involving the death of a former OpenAI researcher in November is "closed," citing, among other evidence, a self-inflicted gunshot wound from a pistol registered to the victim, documents shared with Business Insider show.
Suchir Balaji, an ex-OpenAI employee who last year raised concerns about copyright issues regarding his former employer, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on November 26. He was 26 years old.
Local authorities at the time ruled Balaji's cause of death as an apparent suicide with no evidence of foul play.
Balaji's mother, Poornima Ramarao, previously told BI that the family would seek a private autopsy. Attorneys representing Balaji's parents also filed a petition against the city and county of San Francisco in January, demanding the immediate release of public records related to their son's case.
In a joint letter to the family attorneys dated February 14 from the San Francisco Police Department and the medical examiner's office, authorities wrote that Balaji was found lying alone in his bathroom with no signs of a "forced entry to the single door leading into the residence."
In the police's investigative findings, the letter said, a firearm was found underneath...
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