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The household of Suchir Balaji state he was killed and didn't kill himself. Now they've taken legal action against San Francisco and hb9lc.org its department.

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The moms and dads of departed OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji have taken legal action against the city of San Francisco and the San Francisco Police Department, declaring that the real cause of his death was not suicide, but murder.

The claim, submitted in January, alleges that the SFPD concealed the crime, imoodle.win ruling it a suicide without conducting an extensive examination.

Balaji, who had actually worked as a scientist at OpenAI, was discovered dead in his San Francisco apartment last November. Attorneys say Balaji's parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, asked for even more examination into his death however were informed the case was currently closed.

"The claim requires that the city, police department, and medical inspector release public documents kept under the general public Records Act," Joseph Goethals, attorney for photorum.eclat-mauve.fr the petitioners, engel-und-waisen.de told Decrypt. He said that if the files weren't provided within 10 days, and "no legitimate exceptions apply, a claim can oblige their release. We will look for a court order to obtain them."

The claim claims that SFPD breached the California Public Records Act by unlawfully keeping public records of the case. Attorneys for Ramarao and Ramamurthy also argued that the investigation into their kid's death was rushed and insufficient, with officials ignoring essential forensic findings and failing to resolve their demands for more inquiry.

The claim requires the immediate disclosure of all reports, pictures, and videos, together with coverage of legal costs.

Said Geothals: "If the San Francisco Superior Court does not analyze and enforce the law correctly, we will look for option with the Court of Appeal. We hope it does not pertain to that."

Balaji worked for OpenAI from November 2020 to August 2024. In an interview with The New york city Times in October, he said that before the general public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, bytes-the-dust.com he had actually assisted OpenAI gather and use "huge amounts" of information taken from the internet without consent.

According to the claim, in December, Balaji's family employed forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Cohen to perform a personal autopsy. In his report, morphomics.science Dr. Cohen determined that there was a single gunshot injury in the mid-forehead, slightly to the right of the bridge of his nose.

Dr. Cohen said that the bullet trajectory was unusual for a suicide, as it traveled downward at a slight left-to-right angle, completely missing the brain before lodging in the brainstem, according to the suit. Dr. Cohen determined a contusion on the back of Balaji's head, which he said raised further concerns about the circumstances of his death.

The San Francisco Police Department did not immediately react to a request for comment by Decrypt.

The claim called out the situations of Bilaji's death. His body was discovered a week after The New York Times pointed out the whistleblower in a court filing associated to its claim against OpenAI.

Despite Balaji's discoveries, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pressed back on the New york city Times' claims. Speaking at the newspaper's annual DealBook Summit, Altman dismissed the claims.