Coroner identifies Apple employee found dead at headquarters

The Apple Inc employee found dead at the company's California headquarters was Edward Mackowiak, 25, the Santa Clara Coroner's office said Thursday.

Mackowiak's body was found Wednesday at Apple's campus in the Silicon Valley community of Cupertino, a spokeswoman for the Santa Clara County coroner's office said. She did not release a cause of death.

An Apple spokesman declined to comment or say what Mackowiak did for the company, but a LinkedIn profile that has since been taken down listed him as a software engineer.

On Wednesday local media reported that the victim had suffered a head wound and a gun was discovered near his body. "Currently there are no new updates on this case," said Sergeant Andrea Urena of the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office. "We do not believe there was any foul play involved. This is now a coroner's case." Santa Clara County Sheriff's officials have said deputies were summoned to Apple's offices at 8:35 a.m. PDT (1235 GMT) and found a man dead in a conference room.

Apple's so-called Infinite Loop campus is the hub for the company's large workforce in Cupertino, which numbers 16,000 employees, according to a 2013 report on the company's economic impact.

The company is constructing another campus in the city, a massive loop of glass often likened to a spaceship. "We are heartbroken by the tragic loss of a young and talented coworker. Our thoughts and deepest sympathies go out to his family and friends, including the many people he worked with here at Apple," the company said in a statement issued late on Wednesday.