{"id":1512757,"date":"2026-06-05T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=677f3f5e26dc24911156b68c5aadfa20"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:12:45","slug":"veteran-actor-james-handy-fatally-stabbed-in-los-angeles-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1512757","title":{"rendered":"Veteran actor James Handy fatally stabbed in Los Angeles, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/0b4fb430dfdb4912968ae92a352a07cf.jpg\" alt\/><figcaption>James Handy in a 1995 episode of 'NYPD Blue.'  (Photo by ABC Photo Archives\/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>Actor James Handy, known for roles in films including <em>Top Gun: Maverick, The Rocketeer<\/em> and<em> Jumanji<\/em>, has been identified as the victim of a fatal stabbing in Los Angeles on Wednesday, police said.<\/p><p>The Los Angeles Police Department said officers responded Wednesday to a report of \"unknown trouble\" in the Tarzana neighborhood of the city and found Handy in the front yard of a residence suffering from a stab wound to the chest.<\/p><p>He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The Los Angeles Police Department on Thursday identified the victim as the 81-year-old actor.<\/p><p>According to the LAPD, the suspect called emergency services and said, \"I am the son of man, I just killed the man of sin.\"<\/p><p>Investigators allege that 44-year-old Michael Gledhill, the son of Handy's girlfriend, stabbed the actor, though authorities have not revealed any motive behind the alleged stabbing.<\/p><p>Police said Gledhill flagged down responding officers and told them he was the person they were looking for.<\/p><p>Gledhill, who lived with his mother and Handy, was arrested and booked on suspicion of murder. Bail was set at $2 million.<\/p><p>The LAPD said the stabbing was an isolated incident and that there is no further danger to the public.<\/p><p>According to IMDb, Handy appeared in numerous film and television productions during his career, including roles in <em>Top Gun: Maverick, The Rocketeer<\/em> and <em>Jumanji.<\/em><\/p><p>The investigation into Handy\u2019s death is currently ongoing.<\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Handy in a 1995 episode of &#8216;NYPD Blue.&#8217;  (Photo by ABC Photo Archives\/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)Actor James Handy, known for roles in films including Top Gun: Maverick, The Rocketeer and Jumanji, has been identified as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":840,"featured_media":1512760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/0b4fb430dfdb4912968ae92a352a07cf.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451,1502],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news","category-abc-heads"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-06-07 11:12:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/0b4fb430dfdb4912968ae92a352a07cf.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1512757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512761,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512757\/revisions\/1512761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}