Dead Apple employee identified as 25-year-old software engineer, report says [u]
An Apple employee found dead at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., on Wednesday has reportedly been identified as a 25-year-old software engineer.
The unconfirmed report comes from ABC News reporter Matt Keller, who on Thursday posted an update about the tragic story without citing sources. Keller says the Santa Clara Medical Examiner's Office has not released cause of death.
A recently deleted LinkedIn profile shows someone of the same name did indeed work for Apple as a software engineer. Whether that account belonged to the person whose body was found at Apple's headquarters is unknown.
AppleInsider has reached out to Apple for comment.
The exact nature of Wednesday's events are unknown, but reports claim a dead body was discovered in a conference room at Apple's Infinite Loop headquarters at around 8:30 a.m. Pacific. Apple confirmed the death later that day.
"We are heartbroken by the tragic loss of a young and talented coworker," Apple spokesperson Kristin Hugue said in a statement. "Our thoughts and deepest sympathies go out to his family and friends, including the many people he worked with here at Apple. We are working to support them however we can in this difficult time."
Update: The Santa Clara Medical Examiner's Office has ruled the employee's death a suicide, Keller reports.
The unconfirmed report comes from ABC News reporter Matt Keller, who on Thursday posted an update about the tragic story without citing sources. Keller says the Santa Clara Medical Examiner's Office has not released cause of death.
A recently deleted LinkedIn profile shows someone of the same name did indeed work for Apple as a software engineer. Whether that account belonged to the person whose body was found at Apple's headquarters is unknown.
AppleInsider has reached out to Apple for comment.
The exact nature of Wednesday's events are unknown, but reports claim a dead body was discovered in a conference room at Apple's Infinite Loop headquarters at around 8:30 a.m. Pacific. Apple confirmed the death later that day.
"We are heartbroken by the tragic loss of a young and talented coworker," Apple spokesperson Kristin Hugue said in a statement. "Our thoughts and deepest sympathies go out to his family and friends, including the many people he worked with here at Apple. We are working to support them however we can in this difficult time."
Update: The Santa Clara Medical Examiner's Office has ruled the employee's death a suicide, Keller reports.
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Although SIRI may have had nothing to do with this recent death at all, SIRI is in many ways is terribly flawed, not too unlike handwriting recognition on the Newton. The pressure within Apple to create the insanely great may very often drive the engineering geniuses behind it to the edge of sanity.
Also, according to many people on this forum Apple employees are "incompetent and lazy", at least, that is the refrain whenever some kind of bug is found, or not everything works perfectly 100% of the time. But when something like this happens, people are quick to go the other way, accusing Apple of pushing their employees too hard, hard enough to kill themselves.
Wait for the damn facts before spouting such drivel. Also, people often kill themselves in their workplace because of causes unrelated specifically to their workplace (ie. personal/family issues, chronic depression, etc)
Show some respect for the dead, people, instead of reflexively reaching for some lame punchline.
I wish articles like this weren't even open to comments because it leads to the worst of people coming through.
He obviously premeditated that he wanted to do it at Apple hq...so whatever was his issue(s), it is clear he believed Apple was responsible.