- Marco Troper, son of YouTube’s former CEO Susan Wojcicki, was discovered lifeless in his UC Berkeley dorm at 19.
- The household suspects a drug overdose, however the actual reason for dying is at the moment unknown.
- A toxicology report is predicted inside 30 days to substantiate the reason for dying.
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 lifeless in his dorm room on campus on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the college confirmed to the outlet.
Troper was discovered unresponsive Tuesday on the pupil housing advanced Clark Kerr Campus at about 4:23 p.m. native time, UC Berkeley spokesperson Janet Gilmore instructed NBC. The Berkeley Hearth Division responded to the advanced and tried “life-saving measures,” however he was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
Whereas police sources instructed Individuals the reason for dying is unknown, Troper’s grandmother, Esther Wojcicki, instructed 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 instructed SFGATE, calling her grandson “loving” and a “math genius.”
Wojcicki instructed 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% increased throughout the nation during the last 12 months in comparison with the prior 12 months, per CDC statistics.
“He was all the pieces you might have wished for in a son and a grandson. He was destined to make a distinction,” SFGATE reported Wojcicki mentioned. “It is heartbreaking.”
Esther Wojcicki didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.
