2024年新年伊始,美国硅谷发生了“清华大学谷歌工程师暴力杀妻案”,轰动全网!缺课的同学请戳:27岁谷歌华人工程师承认,徒手殴打妻子致死,更多现场细节曝光,邻居表示十分震惊...
没想到相隔不到一个月,2月12日美国硅谷再一次发生一起杀妻案,而且更加悲惨、更加骇人听闻:前谷歌工程师在家中枪杀了妻子和2个4岁的双胞胎儿子,最后自杀...
美国主流媒体纷纷报道了该事件,再一次引发了大家对于高科技公司员工心理和精神压力的热议。
01一家四口殒命美国硅谷
The family found dead inside a Bay Area home earlier this week were a husband, wife, and their twin 4-year-old boys, DailyMail.com can reveal.
据《每日邮报》报道,本周早些时候,在旧金山湾区的一所房子里,一对夫妇和他们4岁的双胞胎儿子被发现死亡。
Friends on Tuesday identified the couple as Anand Sujith Henry, 37, and Alice Benziger, 38, who purchased the $2.1 million home in ritzy San Mateo in 2020, records show.
记录显示,这对夫妇是 37 岁的阿南德·苏吉斯·亨利和 38 岁的爱丽丝·本齐格。
Their twin sons Noah and Neithan - both aged four - were found inside one of its five bedrooms Monday morning on a couch.
周一早上,他们的双胞胎儿子诺亚和内森(均为四岁),在其中一个卧室的沙发上被发现。
The couple, who worked as a data scientist and an engineer, respectively, were found with gunshotwounds beside a 9mm pistol and a loaded magazine in the bathroom, San Mateo Police Department confirmed Tuesday to DailyMail.com.
圣马特奥警察局周二向《每日邮报》证实,这对分别担任数据科学家和工程师的夫妇在浴室里被发现时,身边有一把 9 毫米手枪和一个装满子弹的弹匣,身上有枪伤。
The case, as of Wednesday, is being treated as a murder-suicide, after early reports erroneouslyindicated the family died of gas poisonings.
截至周三,这起案件被视为一起谋杀后自杀案处理,此前有报道称这家人死于毒气中毒,是错误的。
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It was there, on Monday morning, that officers were confronted with the grisly scene, after receiving an unspecified call from someone concerned about the family's well-being and whereabouts.
周一早上,警察接到了一个不明来电,有人担心这家人的安危和下落,于是警察就在他们家里看到了这惨不忍睹的一幕。
Officers knocked on the door but no-one responded, cops, told DailyMail.com, so they entered via an unlocked window.
警察告诉《每日邮报》,他们敲了门,但没有人回应,于是他们从一扇没有上锁的窗户进入。
'Based on the information we have at this time, this appears to be an isolated incident with no danger to the public as we are confident the person responsible was located within the home,' San Mateo PD said in a statement.
圣马特奥警察局在一份声明中说:“根据我们目前掌握的信息,这似乎是一起孤立事件,不会对公众造成危险,因为我们相信肇事者就在那所房子里。”
02夫妻双方都是学霸精英
这对夫妇从大学时就在一起,都有着闪耀的履历,属于学霸之间的强强联合。
The couple, family said, were both alumniof TKM Engineering College, and also both attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
他们的家人表示,这对夫妇都是TKM工程学院的校友,也都曾就读于匹兹堡的卡内基梅隆大学。
The couple emigrated to the US in 2018.
这对夫妇于2018年移民到美国。
Henry's father, Dr G. Henry was the former principal of Fatima Mata National College in Kerala, India.
亨利的父亲亨利博士是印度喀拉拉邦法蒂玛玛塔国立学院的前任校长。
The husband, a former Software Engineering Manager at both Meta and Google, filed for divorce in December 2016, records show - years before Benziger, a data science manager at Zillow, gave birth.
记录显示,丈夫曾是 Meta 和谷歌的软件工程师,于 2016 年 12 月提出离婚,那时身为Zillow的数据科学家的妻子本齐格还未生育他们的两个双胞胎儿子。
Apparently, the divorce never materialized, and after leaving his post at Meta this past June, Henry founded his own AI company.
显然,两人最终没有离婚,今年 6 月离开 Meta 公司后,亨利成立了自己的人工智能公司。
The firm, identified on the seasoned computer scientist's social media as Logits, provides enterprises with the means to 'privately train and serve Generative AI models' to serve their own specific business needs. Its site, as of writing, is down.
这家公司在这位经验丰富的计算机科学家的社交媒体上被称为 Logits,为企业提供“私人训练和服务生成人工智能模型”,以满足其特定的业务需求。截至发稿前,该公司网站已关闭。
Before that, he worked at Meta for a year and a half, after a nearly eight-year stint at Google's office in Sunnyvale.
在此之前,他曾在 Meta 工作过一年半,在谷歌位于桑尼维尔的办公室工作了近八年。
Alice obtained a Master's in data science at the University of San Francisco, her LinkedIn shows, after which she held positions at Dictionary.com, Idibon, and Change.org, before assuming her senior role at Zillow six years ago.
爱丽丝·本齐格在旧金山大学获得了数据科学硕士学位,之后她在Dictionary.com、Idibon和Change.org担任过职位,六年前在Zillow担任高级职位。
According to a news source from the region, Benziger's mother had been staying with the family, leaving only on February 11, the day before the murder suicide.
据该地区的消息来源称,爱丽丝·本齐格的母亲一直与他们住在一起,直到2月11日才离开,也就是谋杀和自杀发生的前一天。
美国婚姻情感专家Julius Wenger曾经在著作《幸福婚姻法则》(Happy Marriage Laws)上写道:“即使是再美好的婚姻,一生中也会有 200 次离婚的念头,50 次掐死对方的冲动。”
难以相信究竟是遇到了什么难题,会让这位丈夫做出这样的事情。妻子生前是否经历过家庭暴力。目前他们的家人已经从印度赶往美国。当地警方将努力收集证据,与目击者和家人谈话,以确定凶手杀人的动机。
今日词汇
gunshot/ ˈɡʌnʃɒt / n.射击;射程;炮击
erroneously/ ɪˈrəʊniəsli / adv.错误地;不正确
grisly/ ˈɡrɪzli / adj.恐怖的,可怕的
alumni / əˈlʌmnaɪ / n.校友,毕业生(alumnus 的复数)
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