The son of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki was discovered lifeless 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, informed SFGATE. “One factor we do know, it was a drug.” The household, she added, is awaiting a toxicology report that would assist verify the reason for demise, but it surely may take as much as a month.
“I believe an important factor is that youngsters and faculty college students have to know that medicine right this moment will not be the identical because the medicine of yesterday, they’re typically laced with fentanyl,” Esther Wojcicki informed the Day by day Put up in Palo Alto.
A college spokesperson wrote to Fortune: “We will 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 demise, that’s to be decided by the coroner’s workplace.”
There have been “no indicators of foul play” and an investigation is underway, in response to the College of California Police Division.
“Our household is devastated past comprehension,” Esther Wojcicki wrote in a Fb submit. “Marco was essentially the most sort, loving, good, 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 top of YouTube, a task 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 guide entitled Easy methods to Increase Profitable Folks 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 reduce too brief,” Esther Wojcicki wrote in her Fb submit. “And we’re all devastated, excited about all of the alternatives and life experiences that he’ll miss and we are going to miss collectively. Marco, all of us love you and miss you greater than you’ll ever know.”
