Tragic new particulars emerge after Canine the Bounty Hunter’s 13-year-old step-grandson unintentionally shot and killed by personal father

Additional particulars have emerged in regards to the tragic dying of Duane ‘Canine the Bounty Hunter’ Chapman’s 13-year-old step-grandson.

Horror struck on Saturday night (19 July) in Naples, Florida, when Gregory Zecca – the son of Chapman’s spouse, Francie Frane – unintentionally shot and killed his son Anthony.

The incident, which the household have described as a ‘tragic accident’, unfolded in Zecca’s house.

In accordance with a police report, cops had been known as to the house at round 8pm and officers discovered the 13-year-old boy with a deadly gunshot wound to his neck, The US Solar reports.

Anthony’s neck had been pierced by a bullet which struck him above his sternum, however there was reportedly no exit wound.

Heartbreakingly, the outlet studies that Anthony had misplaced ‘massive quantities of blood’ earlier than officers from the Collier County Sheriff’s Workplace arrived.

Emergency responders administered CPR and different life-saving measures in a bid to avoid wasting the teenager, nevertheless it was sadly too late and he was later pronounced lifeless at 10.21pm.

The gun which fired the deadly bullet was discovered on the kitchen island in Zecca’s house, based on studies. The dad was discovered with an empty holster in his waistband.

The Collier County Sheriff’s Workplace told E! Information {that a} ‘dying investigation’ is now underway with reference to the incident.

No arrests have been made and no costs have been filed, as of now.

In a press release shared with the outlet, police mentioned: “The decision got here into our dispatch at 8:08 p.m. This was an remoted incident.

“Our detectives are conducting an intensive investigation trying into all the weather of this tragic incident. The investigation contains statements from witnesses who had been on the scene, forensic testing, subpoenas, and search warrants.”

A spokesperson for Chapman, 72, – who shot to fame as a bounty hunter after efficiently capturing Max Issue cosmetics inheritor Andrew Luster in 2003 – and his spouse shared a short assertion on behalf of the household.

It said: “We’re grieving as a household over this incomprehensible tragic accident and would ask for continued prayers as we grieve the lack of our beloved grandson, Anthony.”

Experiences counsel that Chapman’s stepson Zecca was a member of his bounty searching workforce, whereas Instagram posts present he took Anthony to a taking pictures vary in 2021.

Father-of-13 Chapman received hitched to Frane – who’s Zecca’s mom – in 2021 following the deaths of their respective spouses, with the pair connecting over their shared expertise of grief.

Talking of how their love blossomed, the bounty hunter’s spouse told Leisure Tonight in 2020: “We understood the ache that the opposite one was feeling and [in] these robust days and moments, we helped one another arise.

“We may cry with one another and discuss what we had been feeling. We had been capable of stroll alongside one another by way of the ache and heartbreak and it introduced us collectively on this wonderful method.”

Chapman himself shared an analogous sentiment whereas discussing how he and Frane received collectively on TMZ Reside in Could 2020.

The truth TV star mentioned: “For a residing, she’s a rancher and she or he just lately misplaced her husband to most cancers six months earlier than I misplaced Beth Chapman.

“So we hopped on the telephone, began speaking to one another, crying and consoling one another after which one factor led to a different and it is simply unbelievable that I have been capable of meet somebody like her.

“With Francie, I am allowed to discuss Beth, we talk about her husband. We cry. We maintain one another.”

Champan’s fifth spouse, Beth, handed away in June 2019 after being identified with stage two throat most cancers.

LADbible Group has contacted Chapman’s representatives for remark.