LLANO, CALIFORNIA — A longtime California Institute of Technology research scientist known for his work studying distant planets and the Milky Way was shot and killed at his home in the rural Antelope Valley community outside Los Angeles, authorities said.
Carl Grillmair, 67, died Monday from a gunshot wound to the torso, according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner. Deputies responded shortly after 6 a.m. to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon and found Grillmair on his front porch. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department arrested 29-year-old Freddy Snyder, who faces a murder charge in connection with Grillmair’s death, along with separate charges of carjacking and burglary. Authorities said Snyder was initially detained in connection with a nearby carjacking before being charged in the homicide. It remains unclear whether the two men knew each other.
Grillmair worked at Caltech’s Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, partnering with NASA and the National Science Foundation. Over a four-decade career, he published extensively and received NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for detecting signs of water on a distant planet — a discovery colleagues described as monumental.
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