Dear Permission to be Powerful Reader,
Gunshot to the head.
That’s how they found him.
November 26, 2024. San Francisco. Bathroom floor. Blood pooled beneath him. Glock on the tile. Door locked from the inside.
The initial report called it suicide.
Neat. Clean. Quick.
But nothing about Suchir Balaji’s death was clean.
He was 26. Brilliant. Soft-spoken. And he …


