The son of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki was discovered useless in a school dorm on Tuesday.
Marco Troper, 19, was a freshman at UC Berkeley. A drug overdose is suspected.
“He ingested a drug, and we don’t know what was in it,” Troper’s grandmother, Esther Wojcicki, instructed SFGATE. “One factor we do know, it was a drug.” The household, she added, is awaiting a toxicology report that might assist verify the reason for loss of life, nevertheless it may take as much as a month.
“I feel an important factor is that youngsters and school college students have to know that medication immediately aren’t the identical because the medication of yesterday, they’re typically laced with fentanyl,” Esther Wojcicki instructed the Every day Put up in Palo Alto.
A college spokesperson wrote to Fortune: “We are able to verify that Marco Troper, a first-year freshman at UC Berkeley, has died. He was an undeclared main within the Faculty of Letters & Science. We have no idea the reason for loss of life, that’s to be decided by the coroner’s workplace.”
There have been “no indicators of foul play” and an investigation is underway, in accordance with the College of California Police Division.
“Our household is devastated past comprehension,” Esther Wojcicki wrote in a Fb submit. “Marco was essentially the most variety, loving, sensible, enjoyable and exquisite human being He was simply getting beginning on his second semester of his freshman 12 months at UC Berkeley majoring in math and was really loving it.”
The household is well-known in Silicon Valley. Susan Wojcicki rented her storage in Menlo Park to Google’s founders—Larry Web page and Sergey Brin—in 1998, when she was a advertising and marketing supervisor at Intel. She went on to work for a few years at Google, together with as the pinnacle of YouTube, a job she stepped down from final 12 months.
Anne Wojcicki, Susan’s sister, is the cofounder and CEO of the non-public genomics agency 23andMe, and was beforehand married to Brin.
Esther Wojcicki wrote a 2019 ebook entitled Learn how to Increase Profitable Individuals and, as a journalism instructor, mentored Lisa Brennan-Jobs, daughter of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.
Troper’s grandfather, the late Stanley Wojcicki, was chairman of Stanford’s physics division. He died final 12 months.
“Marco’s life was lower too quick,” Esther Wojcicki wrote in her Fb submit. “And we’re all devastated, enthusiastic about all of the alternatives and life experiences that he’ll miss and we’ll miss collectively. Marco, all of us love you and miss you greater than you’ll ever know.”
