Former NASA exec found guilty of killing neighbor over dog poop, noise and trash complaints

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October 19, 2021 at 9:07 pm EDT
By Crystal Bonvillian, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
FAIRFAX, Va. — Michael Hetle was an executive at NASA
headquarters in Washington, D.C. His neighbor, Javon Prather,
worked at a grocery store and was a member of the Maryland
National Guard.

Years of disputes between the two men over dog feces, noise and
trash ended in gunfire last March. On Thursday, Hetle, 54, of
Springfield, Virginia, was convicted of first-degree murder in
Prather’s death.

He was also found guilty of using a firearm in the commission of
a felony.

Prather, a 24-year-old National Guard infantryman, was gunned
down March 3, 2020, on the driveway of Hetle’s Bedstraw Court
townhouse. His wife, Janelle Prather, and multiple shocked
neighbors witnessed the shooting, which prosecutors described in
court as an execution.

Hetle’s own Ring doorbell camera captured footage of the
daylight murder, as well as a chilling threat he shouted at
Janelle Prather after firing seven shots into her husband, the
last of which was fired as Javon Prather lay dying on the ground.

“You want it, too?” Hetle asked the man’s wife angrily.

The case has inflamed racial tensions in the community, as well
as in the Daventry neighborhood where both men lived. Hetle is
white and Javon Prather was of mixed race.

“Evidence submitted during the trial revealed that racial animus
was a contributing factor in Mr. Hetle’s actions,” Steve
Descano, the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Fairfax County, said in
a statement.

Part of that evidence was the testimony of Hetle’s son, who told
the court that his father often used a racial epithet when
talking about Prather, according to The Washington Post.

Prosecutors argued that the killing was premeditated, pointing
out that the same day he killed Prather, Hetle sent an ominous
email to their neighborhood homeowners association. In the
message, Hetle warned that the feud between him and Prather
could “result in tragedy” if nothing was done.

Fairfax County prosecutor Joe Martin said Heltle was angry
because he believed the HOA and police weren’t taking his
complaints against the Prathers seriously enough.

‘He wanted Javon dead’
The Post reported that prior to his job at NASA, Hetle was a
police officer in Bellevue, Washington. While with the
department, he fatally shot two men in separate incidents.

One victim was an unarmed Guatemalan immigrant.

Hetle’s two fatal shootings occurred less than a year apart.
They were also two of only three lethal officer-involved
shootings in the Bellevue Police Department’s then-48-year
history, according to 2001 reports.

In a third incident, Hetle was disciplined for a 2000 traffic
stop in which an Ethiopian immigrant accused him of racial bias,
the Post reported. As part of the settlement in the case, Hetle
resigned in 2003.

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[Gregory Carr]

Racists tend not to be Biden voters.

Mike Hetle, a Bellevue, Washington police officer, confronted Martinez as he was driving away from the scene of an alleged domestic dispute with his cousin. Hetle was given erroneous information by a dispatcher who claimed that Martinez was known for being a repeat offender for domestic violence. Hetle ordered Martinez, in English, to get out of the car and, in Spanish, to put his hands up. Martinez did not comply and began to pull
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_States_prior_to_2009#2001

Hope Hetle gets the maximum penalty the murdering racist.