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.
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.
Their twin sons Noah and Neithan – both aged four – were found inside one of its five bedrooms Monday morning on a couch.
The couple, who worked as a data scientist and an engineer, respectively, were found with gunshot wounds beside a 9mm pistol and a loaded magazine in the bathroom, San Mateo Police Department confirmed Tuesday to DailyMail.com.
The case, as of Wednesday, is being treated as a murder-suicide, after early reports erroneously indicated the family died of gas poisonings. Cops now say that was not the case, after coming across the horrific scene during a welfare check at 9:13 am.
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Friends on Tuesday identified the couple as Anand Sujith Henry, 37, and Alice Benziger, 38, as well as their twin sons, who DailyMail.com
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 to their two kids
Apparently, the divorce never materialized, and after leaving his post at Meta this past June, Henry founded his own AI company
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
The pair purchased the $2.1million home in San Mateo om 2020, records show. The couple, who hailed from India were found with gunshot wounds beside a 9mm pistol and a loaded magazine in the bathroom, San Mateo Police Department confirmed Tuesday to DailyMail.com
‘We are confident the person responsible was located within the home,’ police said in a statement, as they continue to vet the case surrounding the family, who hailed from India, friends and family confirmed.
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.
Apparently, the divorce never materialized, and after leaving his post at Meta this past June, Henry founded his own AI company.
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.
Before that, he worked at Meta for a year and a half, after a nearly eight-year stint at Google’s office in Sunnyvale.
During that time, the family lived in at least four apartments across San Francisco, records show before relocating to the home where the crime occurred.
This move happened around the time of the kids’ birth – and local this week revealed that in the time since, they have been called to the home several times.
They did not disclose the nature of those calls, and said there was no note left at the scene.
The case, as of Wednesday, is being treated as a murder-suicide, after early reports erroneously indicated the family died of gas poisonings
Cops now say that was not the case, after coming across the horrific scene during a welfare check at 9:13am
‘We are confident the person responsible was located within the home,’ police said in a statement, as they continue to vet the case surrounding the family, who hailed from India, friends and family confirmed
At this point, police in the affluent Bay Area suburb do not have a motive, but remain adamant the killings were committed by someone who lived at the domicile.
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.
Officers knocked on the door but no-one responded, cops, told DailyMail.com, so they entered via an unlocked window.
‘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, still electing to not officially identify the deceased..
‘This investigation continues as detectives work to gather evidence, speak to witnesses and family members, and determine a possible motive.’
Currently, they said, the San Mateo County Coroner’s office is working to notify the slain’s families.
Before that, he worked at Meta for a year-and-a-half, after a nearly eight-year stint at Google’s office in Sunnyvale. Benziger, meanwhile, had worked at Zillow for the past six years
During that time, the family lived in at least four apartments across San Francisco, records show before relocating to the home where the crime occurred
This move happened around the time of the kids’ birth – and local this week revealed that in the time since, they have been called to the home several times
They did not disclose the nature of those calls, and said there was no note left at the scene
At this point, police in the affluent Bay Area suburb do not have a motive, but remain adamant the killings were committed by someone who lived at the residence
Unnamed sources told KTVU the father fatally shot his wife in a bathtub before turning the gun on himself, after relatives said the suspected cause of death was a gas leak from the air conditioning system.
Neither account has been substantiated, with the latter – offered to The New Indian Express by a relative identified only as Claudius – seemingly all but disproven.
‘Today we got a call from their maid, who informed us that the couple had been found dead inside their home,’ the reported relative told the overseas outlet Tuesday, adding that other family members from India are flying to the US now.
The couple, family said, were both alumni of TKM Engineering College, and also both attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
After that, 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.
San Mateo cops investigation, as of Wednesday, remained ongoing. DailyMail.com has reached out for comment.