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A Google software engineer found dead in December at the tech giant's headquarters in Chelsea died of an abnormal heartbeat, officials said Friday.
A guardian discovered that Scott Krulcik, 22, was unconscious on his sixth floor working terminal in the building on Eighth Avenue, near the 16th 16th, around 9 pm. On December 7, police sources said at the time.
EMS workers attempted to perform CPR without success. Krulcik was declared dead on the scene. His body showed no signs of trauma, the authorities said.
The city's medical examiner's office announced Friday that Krulcik had died of "cardiac arrhythmia", probably due to a genetic mutation.
"This young man died of an abnormal heart rhythm, which developed because of a genetic abnormality in an ion channel of the heart (also called" cardiac canalopathy "), said Dr. Barbara Sampson, chief medical examiner, in a statement.
Krulcik was from Saratoga Springs, New York, and lived in the West Village with a roommate who was also a Google engineer.
Krulcik and her roommate are graduates of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
He joined Google as a Software Engineering Intern in May 2016 while he was still enrolled in courses at Carnegie Mellon, according to his personal website.
He completed a new internship in the company the following year and graduated in Computer Science in May.
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