NAPLES, Fla. (WJW) — The 13-year-old step-grandson of Duane Chapman, higher often called Dog the Bounty Hunter, was reportedly killed over the weekend in what’s been described as an unintended capturing by the hands of the boy’s father.
In response to a number of media shops, together with People and the Naples Daily News, citing a weekend report from TMZ, Chapman’s stepson Gregory Zecca — the son of Chapman’s present spouse, Francie — allegedly shot and killed his son Anthony at an condominium in Naples, Florida.
In a report over the weekend, the Naples Daily News reported that sheriff’s deputies in Collier County had been investigating a capturing demise at an condominium complicated shortly after 8 p.m. on July 19. It was described as an “remoted incident.”
The Collier County Sheriff’s Workplace confirmed to Nexstar that its “detectives are conducting an intensive investigation wanting into all the weather of this tragic incident.”
The Chapmans reportedly advised TMZ, by means of a consultant, “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.”
Chapman, finest recognized for his long-running actuality TV present “Canine the Bounty Hunter,” married Francie in 2021. Gregory Zecca is her son from a earlier marriage.
Chapman’s earlier spouse, Beth Chapman, who famously starred alongside him on the present, died in 2019 on the age of 51.