Caltech Astrophysicist Gunned Down on His Front Porch
“was known for his decades of work and contributions in galactic astronomy”
This is horrible news. The victim was considered a genius.
The New York Post reports:
Mystery as groundbreaking Caltech genius found gunned down on porch of SoCal home
A Caltech genius has been gunned down on his porch in Southern California.
Carl Grillmair was found dead outside his home in the unincorporated community of Llano, 75 miles north of LA, on Monday.
The 67-year-old astrophysicist, who was an expert on distant planets, died from a fatal gunshot wound to the torso, the LA County Medical Examiner said.
Cops arrested Freddy Snyder, 29, on Wednesday and charged him with murder. He was also charged over a nearby carjacking and first-degree burglary over a Dec. 28 incident.
His bail has been set at $2 million. It is unclear if there were any links between the suspect and Grillmair.
Cops found the victim lying on his front porch after a 911 call at around 6.10am on Monday. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
A spokesman for Caltech confirmed he was employed there as a research scientist at the institute’s Infrared Processing and Analysis Center.
Grillmair was known for his decades of work and contributions in galactic astronomy.
His interests included work on Dark matter, Galactic structure, stellar populations and exoplanets, according to the Caltech website.
He had been “awarded substantial observation time as a principal investigator on the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, and his research has earned him numerous accolades including a NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal.”
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My money’s on the murder being less “death to the nazi astrophysicist collaborator!” and more “who you lookin’ at, honkie?”
He’s listed as white
so is larry elder 🙂
Actually second brilliant scientist
Murdered in recent months
“The tragic news of Grillamir’s death comes months after prominent nuclear scientist and professor at MIT Nuno Loureiro was murdered at his home.
Loureiro’s killer was identified as Cláudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national who was previously Loureiro’s classmate.”
Coincidents?
all spurred on by luigi