A date has been set for the trial of a Bainbridge Island man who has been charged for the first-degree murder of his former employer.

Brian A. Glaser was arrested Aug. 30 at his Eagle Harbor-area home after police said he allegedly told police that his former boss was killed because he had poisoned Glaser’s dog a few months earlier.

Police were called to the 7000 block of High School Road on Aug. 29 after emergency dispatchers received a 911 call about a suspicious death.

Officers found Donald “Donnie” Duckworth, 66, had been shot multiple times on a property where he had been hired to help drill a well.

Glaser was soon named as a possible “person of interest” in the crime, as he had once worked for Duckworth until he said he was hurt on the job several months ago. A disagreement over whether Glaser was really hurt on the job made Glaser seem “ready to snap,” one person familiar with the dispute told police.

Glaser was arrested after a nearly five-hour interview with detectives in which he allegedly asked to “plead the fifth” after he was asked about the last time he saw Duckworth and his own whereabouts on the day Duckworth was murdered.

Glaser also told police Duckworth had been shot multiple times while he was on the ground “so he wouldn’t suffer,” according to court documents.

Glaser eventually agreed to show police the gun used in the attack, according to court documents, and officers obtained a search warrant to get the firearm from a backpack in the living room of Glaser’s home.

Police found the loaded gun where Glaser had said it was, and he also pointed investigators to a spot in the wooded area in front of his home where he had wrapped up and buried the shell casings from the murder scene.

Officers found 16 shell casings, which police said were consistent with the spent rounds recovered from where Duckworth had been murdered.

Authorities also said a description of a truck seen where Duckworth was killed matched the appearance of a truck found in Glaser’s driveway.

Detectives also said they discovered Glaser’s fingerprints on one of the trucks at the property at the High School Road property where Duckworth had been drilling the well.

Glaser pleaded “not guilty” to first-degree murder at his initial arraignment Aug. 31.

His trial on first-degree murder has been scheduled for Oct. 22 in Kitsap County Superior Court.

Prosecutors have also asked for permission to obtain samples of Glaser’s blood, hair and other evidence before the start of the trial. That request will be considered in superior court Sept. 14.

Glaser remains in custody in Kitsap County Jail, and authorities have requested that bail be set at $1 million.