The household of Suchir Balaji say he was murdered and didn't eliminate himself. Now they have actually taken legal action against San Francisco and its police department.

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The parents of departed OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji have taken legal action against the city of San Francisco and the San Francisco Police Department, alleging that the real reason for users.atw.hu his death was not suicide, but murder.

The claim, filed in January, alleges that the SFPD covered up the criminal activity, ruling it a suicide without performing an extensive examination.

Balaji, who had worked as a researcher at OpenAI, was found dead in his San Francisco house last November. Attorneys say Balaji's moms and dads, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, yogicentral.science asked for further investigation into his death but were informed the case was already closed.

"The claim requires that the city, police department, and medical examiner release public documents withheld under the Public Records Act," Joseph Goethals, lawyer for the petitioners, informed Decrypt. He said that if the documents weren't provided within 10 days, and "no legitimate exceptions apply, a claim can force their release. We will look for a court order to obtain them."

The claim claims that SFPD broke the California Public Records Act by unlawfully keeping public records of the case. Attorneys for Ramarao and Ramamurthy likewise argued that the investigation into their child's death was hurried and inadequate, with authorities overlooking essential forensic findings and failing to address their demands for further questions.

The claim requires the instant disclosure of all reports, images, and bbarlock.com videos, along with coverage of legal costs.

Said Geothals: "If the San Francisco Superior Court does not translate and impose the law correctly, we will look for recourse with the Court of Appeal. We hope it doesn't pertain to that."

Balaji worked for OpenAI from November 2020 to August 2024. In an interview with The New York Times in October, he said that before the general public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, visualchemy.gallery he had actually helped OpenAI collect and use "massive amounts" of information taken from the internet without approval.

According to the claim, in December, Balaji's household hired forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Cohen to carry out a private autopsy. In his report, Dr. Cohen identified that there was a single gunshot wound in the mid-forehead, slightly to the right of the bridge of his nose.

Dr. Cohen said that the bullet trajectory was uncommon for a suicide, as it traveled downward at a minor left-to-right angle, completely missing out on the brain before lodging in the brainstem, according to the match. Dr. Cohen determined a contusion on the back of Balaji's head, which he said raised even more concerns about the situations of his death.

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

The claim called out the circumstances of Bilaji's death. His body was found a week after The New York Times mentioned the whistleblower in a court filing related to its claim against OpenAI.

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