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Famed astrophysicist Carl Grillmear was found dead on the porch of his California home after an unknown person shot him to death.
Grillmair worked at the University of California's Infrared Data Processing and Analysis Center, which collaborates with NASA and the US National Science Foundation.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the scientist had converted his home, west of the Mojave Desert, into a private observatory with telescopes, while studying comets and asteroids potentially dangerous to Earth.
Reports indicate that 911 received a report of an armed attack. Police officers who arrived at the scene found the 67-year-old scientist with a gunshot wound, and doctors pronounced him dead.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department later reported the arrest of a 29-year-old suspect, but it is still unclear whether they knew each other.
"A prominent astrophysicist from the California Institute of Technology, who has been involved in research in the field of galactic astronomy and the study of distant planets for more than 40 years, was fatally shot. A suspect in his murder has been charged," writes the Los Angeles Times.
To his colleagues, he is one of the leading experts on the structure of the Milky Way. His scientific works were devoted to stellar flows and the evolution of galaxies.
In 2007, he published a study on the presence of water on a distant planet outside our solar system and was honored with several awards, including a NASA medal.
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