US police offer reward over stray-bullet death of British astrophysicist

The death was a random act that was the “result of the reckless discharge of firearms”, Brookhaven police said in a poster announcing the reward

Dr Matthew Willson and his partner Katherine Shepard (Family handout)

Police are offering a 15,000 dollars (£11,000) reward in hopes of finding the gunman responsible for a random bullet fired through the air that struck and killed an English astrophysicist who was visiting Georgia.

Dr Matthew Willson, 31, from Chertsey in Surrey, was visiting his girlfriend at her apartment in the city of Brookhaven near Atlanta when the bullet pierced the wall of the apartment on January 16.