OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji was shot a second time by a bullet that was missed by the autopsy that ruled his death a suicide, his parents claim.

The tech prodigy, 26, was found dead on November 26 only a month after revealingthe company’s dubious methods of training ChatGPT. 

Balaji was found next to his bathroom doorwith a gunshot wound to the head and blood all over part of his apartment in San Francisco’s Mint Hill neighbourhood.

His parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, insist he couldn’t have killed himself, and paid for their own autopsy, toxicology, and other tests.

They are yet to release the entire reports, but revealed bombshell new evidence they claimed would help prove he was murdered to keep him quiet.

CT scans of his head were sent for analysis to two radiologists who knew little of the case and hadn’t seen any of the other evidence. 

Balaji’s parents claimed both saw evidence of two gunshots to the young man’s head, neither of them immediately fatal.

‘A second bullet probably entered through the mouth, no clear entry wound seen but it is lodged in the back of the throat at the skull base/clivus,’ Dr Daniel Cousin at Radsurity in Weston, Florida, wrote in his report.

‘Why [does the] autopsy report not account for the wounds? Why [doesn’t the] autopsy report include metal object in the skull that was not removed?

‘How can someone sedated shoot themselves in a weird downward angle? Why is his cheekbone broken? 

‘All these questions are not answering the cause of death [of suicide] as made by authorities.’

Ramarao also revealed clumps of what initially appeared to be synthetic hair, such as from a wig, found in the pool of blood next to his body was Balaji’s own hair.

His parents now believe it was ripped out during a struggle before he was murdered.

The gun used to shoot Balaji, a 9mm Glock pistol he bought on January 4, 2024, didn’t have any blood on it, Ramarao claimed, speculating someone may have put the gun in his hand and fired it.

The medical examiner’s report found Balaji had a blood alcohol level of 0.178, which his parents said was out of character for him, as he never drank to excess.

He also had between 67,000 nanograms per millilitre and 54,000 ng/ml of GHB, a common ‘date rape’ drug, in his system.

Balaji’s parents also revealed evidence they claimed showed their son wasn’t suicidal, because he was receiving job offers and planning to speak at academic events.