A gunman accused of shooting dead a world-famous Caltech genius last week was let out of jail just two months ago despite a felony gun charge, the California Post has learned. Freddy Snyder was ...

LLANO, Calif. (KABC) -- A 29-year-old Llano man is in custody, charged with killing a Caltech astrophysicist Monday after carjacking his own relative and burglarizing a home. Los Angeles County ...

Freddy Snyder, 29, was charged with murder, carjacking and burglary. The victim, Carl Johann Grillmair, was found shot on the front porch of a home. Snyder was initially arrested for a carjacking in ...

Authorities suspect Carl Grillmair was shot by man arrested for carjacking, as friends mourn him as ‘irreplaceable’ A renowned California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientist who studied ...

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 ...

An accomplished Caltech astrophysicist with more than four decades of research contributions in galactic astronomy and the study of distant planets was fatally shot in a rural area of the Antelope ...

A highly acclaimed Caltech scientist was fatally shot on the porch of his home in Los Angeles. At around 6:10 a.m. local time on Monday, Feb. 16, deputies found a 67-year-old man lying on a porch with ...

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A Caltech research scientist known for groundbreaking discoveries in astronomy has been identified as the victim of a fatal shooting under investigation in the Antelope Valley, officials confirmed on ...

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