Cliff Pinckard
cleveland.com
LOS ANGELES — James Handy, a longtime actor who appeared in “Top Gun: Maverick” and different main movies, was stabbed to dying Wednesday by the son of his girlfriend, police say.
A news launch from the Los Angeles Police Department stated the stabbing occurred round 9:30 a.m. within the West Valley space. Police say a person referred to as 911 and advised the dispatcher “I am the son of man, I just killed the man of sin.”
When officers arrived, they discovered Handy, 81, unconscious within the entrance yard of a house with a stab wound to the chest. He was taken to a hospital however died of his wound, police stated.
The suspect, recognized as 44-year-old Michael Gledhill, flagged down officers and advised them he was the one they have been on the lookout for, in accordance with police. Gledhill lives on the dwelling the place the stabbing occurred along with his mom, who’s Handy’s girlfriend.
Gledhill is being held in jail on $2 million bail for one rely of homicide.
Handy’s first performing credit score was in 1977 in two episodes of the cleaning soap opera “Ryan’s Hope.” His first main movie position was because the sheriff within the 1981 movie “Taps,” which starred George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn and Tom Cruise.
His profession continued with appearances in a number of hit TV reveals comparable to “Cagney & Lacey,” the unique “Matlock,” “Quantum Leap,” “NYPD Blue” and “ER.”
His remaining credited position was as a bartender in 2022 in “Top Gun: Maverick.”
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