Dog the Bounty Hunter’s Stepson Accidentally Shoots and Kills His 13-Year-Old Son [Report]
Dog the Bounty Hunter’s family is mourning an unimaginable tragedy.
According to TMZ, Duane “Dog” Chapman’s 13-year-old step-grandson, Anthony, was killed in an accidental shooting in Naples, Fla., on Saturday night (July 19).
Dog’s stepson, Gregory Zecca, was the one who pulled the trigger, according to authorities.
Around 8 p.m. local time, police responded to reports of a shooting and confirmed the tragic incident was an “isolated” and accidental occurrence.
Currently, no arrests have been made as an investigation is ongoing.
Dog and his wife, Francie, who is Zecca’s mother, released a statement.
We are grieving as a family over this incomprehensible, tragic accident and would ask for continued prayers as we grieve the loss of our beloved grandson, Anthony.
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Francie married the Dog the Bounty Hunter star in 2021 after both had lost their previous spouses.
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Dog’s wife, Beth Chapman, died in 2019 at age 51 following a cancer battle.
Zecca reportedly works with Dog as part of his bounty-hunting team.
The 72-year-old reality TV personality is a father of 13 and has been open in the past about the complexities of his large blended family.
In 2023, he shared that he had discovered another adult son named Jon.
Dog the Bounty Hunter’s Life Today
Duane “Dog” Chapman rose to fame with his hit A&E reality series Dog the Bounty Hunter, which aired from 2004 to 2012.
He’s since starred in multiple spin-offs and bounty-hunting ventures.
Francie Frane is Dog’s sixth wife, and the couple recently revealed they’ve relocated to Georgia, where they continue to live a quieter life away from the spotlight.
Country Stars Who’ve Been Shot
These country stars were shot and left for dead, but surprisingly, only three were killed. Each incident left lasting consequences, however.
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Trace Adkins
Trace Adkins and his second wife Julie were arguing about his excessive drinking when she accidentally shot him in the chest. He’d later say he was trying to disarm her when the gun went off. A bullet went through his heart and lungs, and doctors gave him little chance of survival.
This happened in February 1994, and in the years since the singer has married twice more, given up drinking and been remarkably honest about this incident and others that threatened his life.
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Tracy Lawrence
Tracy Lawrence was protecting a friend when he was shot four times. On May 31, 1991, he was involved in an arm robbery. A group of men circled him and a female friend and demanded their keys, credit cards and cash. Then they tried to force them into a hotel room. Lawrence assumed they would rape his friend and kill them both, so he lunged for the gun pressed to his head.
Gunfire hit his finger, hip, right arm and knee. Once the thieves were out of bullets, they fled, but the good news is his friend got away injury free. Lawrence needed several months to recover and was later told that he’d have bled to death if the bullet in his hip had struck a nearby artery.
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Parmalee Drummer Scott Thomas
Parmalee drummer Scott Thomas was also shot in an armed robbery attempt. It happened in Rock Hill, S.C., in 2010. After the group’s show, two men forced their way into their RV and demanded money. Scott Thomas and the men exchanged gunfire (one robber was injured, the other killed), and the drummer was rushed to get proper medical treatment.
It’d be several years before he was 100 percent, but those were early years in their career on Broken Bow Nashville. Again and again the group has re-told the story, without flinching.
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Blaze Foley
Enigmatic singer and songwriter Blaze Foley died on Feb. 1, 1989 after being shot by a man named Carey January. Foley (real name Michael David Fuller) was friends with Carey’s dad, Concho January, and believed his son was stealing his pension checks. When confronted, the younger January produced a rifle and shot Foley.
He’d later be acquitted on a self-defense claim, and Foley would start to gain fame he never had during his life. He’s best known for writing “If I Could Only Fly” for Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson and for “Clay Pigeons,” later recorded by John Prine.
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Wayne Mills
Wayne Mills was an independent country singer who toured with artists like Blake Shelton and Jamey Johnson and enjoyed some success in Europe. His death in 2013 made national news in America.
A bar owner named Chris Ferrell shot Mills, allegedly after he found the singer lighting a cigarette in a non-smoking zone. He’d get 20 years in jail. Mills left behind a wife of 13 years and a 7-year-old son.
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Stringbean
Stringbean Akeman and wife Estelle were killed on Nov. 11, 1973, at their home in Goodlettsville, Tenn. The Tennessean’s Peter Cooper revitalized the story in 2014, with new interviews from friends and contemporaries, as well as the latest on the couple’s killers.
It was a robbery gone bad. Stringbean (real name: David Akeman) was known to carry significant amounts of cash on him (his wife did, too), but they felt protected in their rural Tennessee home (Cooper’s article points out how this murder brought new fear to Nashville and the country music community).
He arrived home from a performance at the Grand Ole Opry and found his house torn up. Not knowing the robbers were waiting, he walked into his dark house with a gun and started firing upon cousins John and Doug Brown. These two 23-year-old men overcame him and shot him in his kitchen.
Estelle was waiting in the car but came running up. She then tried to retreat and was shot in the back of the head. Legendary singer Grandpa Jones would find their bodies later that morning. It was a very dark time in country music.
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STABBED: Jon Pardi
In the early 2000s, Jon Pardi got into a fight and the other guy pulled a knife. The future singer took three shivs to the stomach, but what made it worse is they couldn’t find proper medical care.
“We just got in (a friend’s) car, we just drove to the hospital,” Pardi once told radio station Y108 in Pittsburgh. “The first hospital didn’t have emergency services. And the second, we had to go to another one it was like ten minutes away. We got in there, and they didn’t know diddly, and then they put me in an ambulance and took me to Sacramento.”
His attacker would get a few months in jail on felony charges.
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Bellagio Fountains Assassin Claims He Shot in Self-Defense
Posted on: June 10, 2025, 02:09h.
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- Manuel “SinCity-Mannywise” Ruiz faces murder charges after allegedly shooting and killing rival vlogger Rodney “Finny Da Legend” Finley and his wife outside the Bellagio on Saturday night
- The two vloggers reportedly had a long-running feud that led to previous confrontations
- Ruiz claims self defense in the shooting, which was livestreamed by his victims
The man arrested for shooting and killing two people in front of the Bellagio fountains on Sunday night claims he fired in self-defense, according to his arrest report — despite a video livestreamed by his victims that strongly suggests that the attack was unprovoked and premeditated.
Manuel Ruiz, 41 (known on YouTube as SinCity-Mannywise) gunned down his rival vlogger, 44-year-old Rodney Finley (Finny Da Legend on YouTube) and his 43-year-old wife, Tanisha Finley, while they livestreamed, after Ruiz had hunted them for more than a day, as revealed by this YouTube clip.
Ruiz made the self-defense claim after turning himself in on Monday morning, according to the report. He told Las Vegas Metropolitan Police (LVMPD) officers that he and his wife, Juliana Pimentel, just happened to come across his victims while strolling down the Strip.
Ruiz, who faces two counts of open murder with a deadly weapon, claimed that he was approached by Tanisha, at which time, Rodney reached for a gun. Ruiz said he shot him to save his own life. He said he saw Tanisha then brandishing a “shiny black object” and shot her as well, believing it was also a gun.
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The LVMPD noted that no weapons were found on or near the Finleys’ bodies, and none were seen in the livestream or in any of the videos posted online.
They believe the brutal double-shooting was the culmination of a social media feud between the vloggers that started in October 2023. Another YouTuber told police that the feud sparked several physical altercations between the two, one of which got Ruiz cited for battery on Fremont Street.
According to Ruiz’s arrest report, detectives used casino surveillance footage to track him from the crime scene back to the Paris Las Vegas valet, where he disposed of his hat, shirt, and a 9mm handgun.
Preliminary ballistics matched the gun to cartridge casings recovered from the crime scene.
Ruiz claimed he was unaware that the Finleys were livestreaming and denied ever making threats toward Rodney.
According to police, after they showed Ruiz the Finleys’ livestream video, which “clearly showed Manny advancing towards Finny while shooting,” Ruiz “became frustrated and asked to speak with an attorney.”
Ruiz appeared in court for the first time on Tuesday morning. Judge Suzan Baucum ordered him held without bail. His next scheduled court appearance is Thursday, June 12.
