Facebook employee dies after apparent suicide at company's Menlo Park headquarters

An employee of Facebook died by apparent suicide Thursday morning, Menlo Park police reported and the company confirmed. "We were saddened to learn that one of our employees passed away at our Menlo Park headquarters earlier today," a Facebook spokesperson told TechCrunch in an email. The male employee was pronounced dead at the scene, which was near the 100 block of Jefferson Drive at a building on Facebook's Menlo Park campus.