While the San Francisco Police Department has said its investigation into the death of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji remains open, his parents, friends and neighbors say they’ve never been contacted by the police nor the medical examiner’s office seeking information about him.
Balaji’s mother, Poornima Ramarao told The Examiner that San Francisco Police Department and Office of the Chief Medical Examiner investigators have not interviewed her about what her son was like or his mental state in the days leading up to his death. According to Ramarao and one of Balaji’s friends, he had been vacationing on Catalina Island with some of his closest friends in the week before his death and had seemed happy.
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