Duane “Canine the Bounty Hunter” Chapman’s stepson Gregory Zecca is going through life behind bars if convicted of aggravated manslaughter after fatally capturing his teenage son.
Florida’s Collier County Sheriff’s Workplace posted an replace on the July 2025 incident by way of Fb on Tuesday, February 3, stating that Zecca unintentionally shot his baby, Anthony, 13, within the household’s Naples, Florida, residence whereas allegedly drunk. Native Southwest Florida information outlet WINK Information was first to report on the replace.
Per the Sheriff’s Workplace, Zecca, 39, was taken into custody “on a warrant for aggravated manslaughter of a kid with a firearm and utilizing a firearm whereas below the affect,” which might end in a life sentence.
A Collier County police investigation into Zecca, who’s the son of Canine’s spouse, Francie Chapmanfrom a earlier marriage, discovered that Zecca allegedly “consumed alcohol over a number of hours at an area institution, bought extra alcohol, and later used each alcohol and marijuana at a buddy’s residence.”
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Zecca and his son have been “watching a UFC combat on TV on the time.”
Legislation enforcement additionally reported that Zecca “repeatedly dealt with a firearm in his son’s presence, training drawing it from his waistband and dry-firing.” The firearm had “initially been made secure by eradicating the journal and clearing a dwell spherical from the chamber.”
Additional element said that the journal was put again into the firearm earlier than Zecca “discharged a single shot” that struck Anthony.
Sheriff Kevin Rambosk said within the replace that the occasion “was a heartbreaking and preventable tragedy.”
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Rambosk added, “Our detectives performed an exhaustive and thorough investigation, inspecting each ingredient of what occurred by witness statements, forensic testing, subpoenas, search warrants, and extra.”
Police officers additionally famous that deputies who arrived on the scene “detected the odor of alcohol on Zecca and noticed marijuana in plain view.”
A subsequent toxicology report estimated Zecca’s “blood-alcohol focus to be roughly 0.116 on the time of the capturing, above Florida’s authorized restrict of 0.08.”
Zecca was positioned on a psychiatric maintain following the capturing. A household consultant instructed TMZ at some point after the incident occurred that Zecca was “below commentary on a 5150 maintain,” which meant that he had been involuntarily detained for 72 hours after being deemed “a hazard to themselves, to others, or gravely disabled,” per Clear Habits Well being.
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The rep additionally instructed the outlet on the time that the maintain was instigated as a result of Zecca was “overcome with grief” and never as a result of he felt responsible of against the law.
Canine launched a press release by way of the outlet within the capturing’s aftermath. “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,” Canine and Francie each wrote on the time.
Mint additionally disabled his Instagram account after the incident. Previous to the account’s disappearance, Zecca had posted pictures of himself with Anthony, together with one picture that confirmed the pair at a capturing vary.
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