The family found dead inside a Bay Area home earlier this week was a husband, wife and their twin 4-year-old children, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Friends on Tuesday identified the couple as Anand Sujith Henry, 37, and Alice Benziger, 38, who bought the $2.1 million home in upscale San Mateo in 2020, records show.
Their twin sons, Noah and Neithan, both 4 years old, were found inside one of their five bedrooms Monday morning on a couch.
The couple, who worked as data scientists and engineers, respectively, were found with gunshot wounds along with a 9mm handgun and a loaded magazine in the bathroom, the San Mateo Police Department confirmed to DailyMail.com on Tuesday.
The case, as of Wednesday, is being treated as a murder-suicide, after early reports wrongly indicated the family died of gas poisoning. Police now say that was not the case, after coming. through the horrible 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 children, who DailyMail.com
The couple bought the $2.1 million home in San Mateo in 2020, records show. The couple, originally from India, was found with gunshot wounds along with a 9mm pistol and a loaded magazine in the bathroom, the San Mateo Police Department confirmed to DailyMail.com on Tuesday.
“We are confident that the person responsible was located inside the house,” police said in a statement, as they continue to examine the case surrounding the family, who came 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.
The divorce apparently never materialized, and after leaving his position at Meta last June, Henry founded his own artificial intelligence company.
The company, identified on the experienced computer scientist’s social media as Logits, provides companies with the means to “privately train and serve generative AI models” to meet their own specific business needs. His site, at the time of writing, is down.
Before that, he worked at Meta for a year and a half, after nearly eight years at Google’s Sunnyvale office.
During that time, the family lived in at least four apartments in San Francisco, records show, before moving into the home where the crime occurred.
This move occurred around the time of the children’s birth, and the local community revealed this week that they have since been called to the home several times.
They did not reveal the nature of those calls and said there was no note at the scene.
The case, as of Wednesday, is being treated as a murder-suicide, after early reports wrongly indicated the family died of gas poisoning.
Police now say that was not the case, after coming across the horrific scene during a welfare check at 9.13am.
“We are confident that the person responsible was located inside the house,” police said in a statement, as they continue to examine the case surrounding the family, who came 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 to their two children.
The divorce apparently never materialized, and after leaving his position at Meta last June, Henry founded his own artificial intelligence company.
The company, identified on the experienced computer scientist’s social media as Logits, provides companies with the means to “privately train and serve generative AI models” to meet their own specific business needs. His site, at the time of writing, is down.
At this time, police in the affluent Bay Area suburb do not have a motive, but are adamant that the murders were committed by someone who lived at the home.
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 answered, cops told DailyMail.com, so they entered through an open 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 that the person responsible was located inside the home,” San Mateo police said in a statement, still choosing not to. officially identify the deceased.
“This investigation continues as detectives work to gather evidence, speak with witnesses and family members, and determine a possible motive.”
Currently, they said, the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office is working to notify the families of those killed.
Before that, he worked at Meta for a year and a half, after nearly eight years at Google’s Sunnyvale office. Meanwhile, Benziger had worked at Zillow for the past six years.
During that time, the family lived in at least four apartments in San Francisco, records show, before moving into the home where the crime occurred.
This move occurred around the time of the children’s birth, and the local community revealed this week that they have since been called to the home several times.
They did not reveal the nature of those calls and said there was no note at the scene.
At this point, police in the affluent Bay Area suburb don’t have a motive, but are adamant that the murders were committed by someone who lived at the residence.
Anonymous sources told KTVU that the father shot his wife to death 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, and the latter, offered to The New Indian Express by a relative identified only as Claudius, is apparently all but disproven.
“Today we received a call from their maid, who informed us that the couple had been found dead inside their house,” the reported relative told a foreign outlet on Tuesday, adding that other family members from India are flying to the United States now.
The couple, the family said, were students at TKM Engineering College and also attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
After that, Alice earned a master’s degree 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 ago. six years.
The San Mateo police investigation, as of Wednesday, remained ongoing. DailyMail.com has contacted for comment.