- Marco Troper, son of YouTube’s former CEO Susan Wojcicki, was discovered useless in his UC Berkeley dorm at 19.
- The household suspects a drug overdose, however the precise reason behind loss of life is presently unknown.
- A toxicology report is anticipated inside 30 days to verify the reason for loss of life.
Marco Troper, the son of YouTube’s former CEO Susan Wojcicki, has died on the age of 19, Individuals reported.
The UC Berkeley freshman was discovered useless in his dorm room on campus on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the varsity confirmed to the outlet.
Troper was discovered unresponsive Tuesday on the pupil housing complicated Clark Kerr Campus at about 4:23 p.m. native time, UC Berkeley spokesperson Janet Gilmore informed NBC. The Berkeley Hearth Division responded to the complicated and tried “life-saving measures,” however he was pronounced useless on the scene.
Whereas police sources informed Individuals the reason for loss of life is unknown, Troper’s grandmother, Esther Wojcicki, informed SFGATE the household believes the teenager died of a drug overdose.
“He ingested a drug, and we do not know what was in it. … One factor we do know, it was a drug,” she informed SFGATE, calling her grandson “loving” and a “math genius.”
Wojcicki informed the outlet {that a} toxicology report will take as much as 30 days to obtain outcomes. Drug overdose deaths are predicted to be 2.1% greater throughout the nation during the last 12 months in comparison with the prior 12 months, per CDC statistics.
“He was all the things you can have wished for in a son and a grandson. He was destined to make a distinction,” SFGATE reported Wojcicki stated. “It is heartbreaking.”
Esther Wojcicki didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.
