Whitey Ford
10-16-2021, 02:15 AM
Prosecutors said in court that Michael Hetle, 54, was so enraged that the homeowners association and police had not done more to act on his complaints about noise, drinking and other issues with 24-year-old Javon Prather that he took matters into his own hands.
Hetle, then a NASA executive, fired blast after blast at Prather one afternoon in March 2020 as horrified residents of their Springfield block and the victim’s wife looked on. The men had fought earlier in the day.
https://i.imgur.com/VXrjKia.jpg
Prather’s wife felt the slaying was in part motivated by racial bias, and testimony at the trial revealed Hetle often referred to Prather by a racial epithet for Black people. Hetle’s attorney denied that contention. Hetle is White and Prather was mixed race.
https://i.imgur.com/IN5TVqA.jpg
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/hetle-prather-fairfax-guilty-verdict/2021/10/14/e6cc5a34-2b68-11ec-8ef6-3ca8fe943a92_story.html
Hetle, then a NASA executive, fired blast after blast at Prather one afternoon in March 2020 as horrified residents of their Springfield block and the victim’s wife looked on. The men had fought earlier in the day.
https://i.imgur.com/VXrjKia.jpg
Prather’s wife felt the slaying was in part motivated by racial bias, and testimony at the trial revealed Hetle often referred to Prather by a racial epithet for Black people. Hetle’s attorney denied that contention. Hetle is White and Prather was mixed race.
https://i.imgur.com/IN5TVqA.jpg
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/hetle-prather-fairfax-guilty-verdict/2021/10/14/e6cc5a34-2b68-11ec-8ef6-3ca8fe943a92_story.html