A NASA employee was charged with murder in the shooting death of his 24-year-old neighbor, a Maryland National Guardsman, according to police.
Michael Hetle, 52, of Springfield, Virginia, is being held without bond at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center on charges of second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

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Hetle’s Ring doorbell camera captured the incident on March 3, 2020. Prather was standing on Hetle’s porch and knocking on the door at the time, the local news outlet. WTOP reports. Hetle was allegedly enraged when local police and the Maryland National Guard failed to act on his complaints about Prather, The Washington Post reports. According to Hetle’s attorney, George L. Freeman IV, his client believed that Prather was armed when he appeared on their doorstep.

Freeman argued that firing six rounds at Prather while trying to escape was in self-defense. Several neighbors witnessed the murder, including Prather’s wife, Janelle Prather. After Prather collapsed in Hetle’s driveway, he fired again before threatening to shoot Prather’s wife.

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