Overview
- The 81-year-old character actor was discovered unconscious in the front yard of his Tarzana home with a stab wound on Wednesday and was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
- Los Angeles police identified 44-year-old Michael Gledhill, the son of Handy’s girlfriend and a resident at the address, and say he flagged down officers who then arrested and booked him on a murder charge.
- A 911 caller who police associate with the suspect told dispatchers, "I am the son of man, I just killed the man of sin," a phrase law enforcement has cited but not linked to a motive.
- The LAPD has said detectives consider the killing an isolated incident, investigators have not released a motive, and anyone with information is asked to contact the Robbery-Homicide Division.
- Handy had a five-decade career with more than 100 credits in film and TV, including Top Gun: Maverick, Jumanji and Logan, and his death has prompted tributes while the legal and forensic inquiry continues.