The son of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki was discovered lifeless in a university 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, informed SFGATE. “One thing we do know, it was a drug.” The household, she added, is awaiting a toxicology report that would assist affirm the reason for demise, however it may take as much as a month.
“We can confirm that Marco Troper, a first-year freshman at UC Berkeley, has died,” a college spokesperson wrote to Fortune. “He was an undeclared major in the College of Letters & Science. We do not know the cause of death, that is to be determined by the coroner’s office.”
There have been “no signs of foul play” and an investigation is underway, based on the College of California Police Division.
“Our family is devastated beyond comprehension,” Esther Wojcicki wrote in a Fb publish. “Marco was the most kind, loving, smart, fun and beautiful human being He was just getting starting on his second semester of his freshman year at UC Berkeley majoring in math and was truly 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 private genomics agency 23andMe, and was beforehand married to Brin.
Esther Wojcicki wrote a 2019 e book entitled Find out how to Increase Profitable Individuals and, as a journalism instructor, mentored Lisa Brennan-Jobs, the 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 cut too short,” Esther Wojcicki wrote in her Fb publish. “And we are all devastated, thinking about all the opportunities and life experiences that he will miss and we will miss together. Marco, we all love you and miss you more than you will ever know.”