Overview
- Police found 81-year-old character actor James Handy unconscious with multiple stab wounds at a Tarzana home after a 911 call, and he was later pronounced dead.
- Officers arrested 44-year-old Michael Gledhill at the scene, he reportedly admitted the stabbing, and prosecutors have charged him with one count of murder.
- Gledhill is being held at Van Nuys Jail on $2 million bail and faces a possible sentence of 26 years to life if convicted.
- The court has ordered psychological evaluations and is considering mental-health court proceedings following family reports that Gledhill was diagnosed with schizophrenia and had recently stopped taking prescribed medication.
- Writer-producer Heidi Anderson-Swan said Handy’s comedy project Kickstart, V was already stalled by funding and scheduling problems and has now been put on hold or cancelled, a decision that ends what would have been his final screen role.