Virginia police introduced early Wednesday that an arrest has been built in relationship to the murder of the founder of a Washington, D.C.-based mostly nonprofit observed shot to death in his house 6 days back. 

A press conference has been scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday to supply specifics on the arrest produced in link to the June 24 homicide of DonorSee founder Gret Glyer in his household on Bolton Village Court, the Metropolis of Fairfax Law enforcement spokesman Lt. Matthew Lasowitz verified to WHD News Digital. 

Lasowitz did not have information quickly offered about the suspect ahead of the reside event. 

In a push release Monday, the office earlier uncovered that law enforcement responded at 2:58 a.m. Friday to the 9800 block of Bolton Village Court docket relating to a capturing that had just transpired. The responding officers entered the home and found a male who experienced been shot with a firearm. 

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The victim, later on determined as Glyer, who resided at the home, experienced succumbed to his accidents, the police section explained and introduced that they had been investigating the dying as a murder.

Gret Glyer, founder of the nonprofit DonorSee, was uncovered shot to demise in his Fairfax, Virginia, home.  (DonorSee)

Glyer, founder of the nonprofit DonorSee, moved into the Fairfax neighborhood about six months back with his wife and two young kids, neighbors told FOX 5 DC. 

His wife, Heather, dialed 911, and law enforcement radio audio captured the dispatcher relaying that the lady described listening to a loud noise and explained she thought an intruder experienced potentially shot her spouse. 

The subsequent-door neighbor described listening to three gunshots. Glyer's two younger children were being at dwelling at the time of the shooting but had been not harmed, police informed FOX 5.

Police also informed the outlet that the home's rear door was open but did not disclose whether there were being signals of pressured entry or if weapons experienced been uncovered. "At this time, we have no rationale to consider that there is a broader menace to the neighborhood," the law enforcement division stated Monday.

Police responded to the scene where DonorSee founder Gret Glyer died of homicide.  (FOX 5 DC)

In an email to WHD News Digital Tuesday, Town of Fairfax Police Sgt. Lisa Gardner said an autopsy had been accomplished on Saturday that confirmed the demise as a homicide, but she declined to offer a lot more information with regards to the situation citing the pending investigation by detectives. 

According to its web page, DonorSee was founded by Glyer adhering to a lifestyle-switching journey to Malawi, Africa, in 2013, for the duration of which time he lifted funds to make a girls' university. 

"Gret Glyer dreamed of a entire world without intense poverty. By his years of humble persistence and inspirational leadership, he did a lot more to shift humanity towards that intention than most men and women believed doable," DonorSee’s interim CEO Owen O’Doherty claimed in a statement Tuesday. 

Aerials around the scene the place DonorSee founder Gret Glyer was fatally shot inside of his Fairfax house.  (FOX 5 DC)

"We are saddened outside of phrases by his tragic, untimely passing. Our hearts are in particular with his wife, Heather, and his two kids," he said. "We acknowledged that he would have preferred us to carry on the visionary operate he started out, and we will do so with specific determination." 

O’Doherty reported individuals impressed by Glyer’s lifetime tale are inspired to donate in his honor to The Humanity Fund, which Glyer introduced just over one particular week back and is developed to "carry the poorest 10% of humanity our of extraordinary poverty via projects supported on the DonorSee platform."

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"Gret mentioned when he released the Fund that ‘the essential to ending just one of the world’s major tragedies is happiness’," O’Doherty recalled. "We will move forward by embodying this identical hope and happiness that Gret distribute through the entire world." 

The nonprofit also orchestrated a fundraiser for Glyer's spouse and young children. As of Wednesday early morning, the platform raised $56,250 to help the deceased founder’s relatives.