{"id":66877,"date":"2026-02-20T14:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/suspect-arrested-after-caltech-scientist-fatally-shot-at-his-home-outside-la\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T14:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:58:21","slug":"suspect-arrested-after-caltech-scientist-fatally-shot-at-his-home-outside-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/suspect-arrested-after-caltech-scientist-fatally-shot-at-his-home-outside-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested after Caltech scientist fatally shot at his home outside LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities suspect renowned astronomer Carl Grillmair was shot by 29-year-old man arrested for nearby carjacking<\/p>\n<p>A renowned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a> Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientist who studied distant planets and other areas of astronomy for decades was recently shot to death at his home in a rural community outside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/los-angeles\">Los Angeles<\/a>, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Carl Grillmair, 67, died from a bullet wound to the torso on Monday in Llano, an unincorporated community in the Antelope Valley, according to information from the LA county medical examiner\u2019s office. The county sheriff\u2019s department said it had arrested a suspect in Grillmair\u2019s slaying, identifying him as 29-year-old Freddy Snyder.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/20\/caltech-scientist-carl-grillmair-shooting-death\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities suspect renowned astronomer Carl Grillmair was shot by 29-year-old man arrested for nearby carjacking A renowned California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientist who studied distant planets and other areas of astronomy for decades was recently shot to death at his home in a rural community outside Los Angeles, authorities said. Carl Grillmair, 67, died &#8230; <a title=\"Suspect arrested after Caltech scientist fatally shot at his home outside LA\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/suspect-arrested-after-caltech-scientist-fatally-shot-at-his-home-outside-la\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Suspect arrested after Caltech scientist fatally shot at his home outside LA\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}