Dog the Bounty Hunter's stepson arrested in connection with fatal shooting of 13-year-old son

Reality TV prima Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman’s stepson has been arrested, months aft the stepson allegedly fatally changeable his teenage son.

The Collier County Sheriff’s Office successful Florida connected Tuesday announced the apprehension of 39-year-old Gregory Anthony Zecca. Officials cited a warrant for felony charges of aggravated manslaughter of a kid with a firearm and utilizing a firearm portion nether the influence. Zecca is the lad of Chapman’s woman Francie Chapman (née Frane) from a erstwhile marriage.

In July, the sheriff’s bureau said, officers reported to a shooting incidental astatine an flat successful Naples successful confederate Florida. The responding serviceman heard screaming connected the dispatch telephone and archetypal responders arrived astatine the location wherever the teenage unfortunate — whose sanction was not revealed — was pronounced dead, according to an incidental study shared with The Times. Law enforcement connected Tuesday said an probe had determined that Zecca “was impaired by alcohol” erstwhile helium allegedly changeable his son.

A ineligible typical for Zecca did not instantly respond to a petition for remark Thursday.

According to Tuesday’s announcement, a toxicology adept recovered “Zecca’s blood-alcohol attraction to beryllium astir 0.116 astatine the clip of the shooting,” supra the state’s bounds of 0.08. Officials besides said that the deputies who responded to the flat successful July “noted the odor of intoxicant connected Zecca and observed marijuana successful plain view.”

Additionally, constabulary claimed the probe determined Zecca had “consumed intoxicant implicit respective hours astatine a section establishment,” bought much alcohol, past consumed intoxicant and marijuana astatine a friend’s location wherever Zecca and his lad were watching a televised UFC match. Officials allege Zecca “repeatedly handled a firearm” portion his lad was contiguous and accused him of “drawing it from his waistband and dry-firing.”

Police said the firearm had been “rendered safe,” without a mag and unrecorded circular from its chamber, but “at immoderate point” was reloaded. “Zecca discharged a azygous shot, fatally striking the child,” the sheriff’s bureau said.

Collier County Sheriff Kevin Rambosk said Zecca’s lawsuit “underscores that devastating calamity that tin effect from mixing firearms, intoxicant and drugs.”

Chapman and his woman Francie Chapman confirmed their grandson’s decease successful a July connection shared to TMZ. “We are grieving arsenic a household implicit this incomprehensible tragic mishap and we grieve the nonaccomplishment of our beloved grandson, Anthony,” they said astatine the time.

A typical for Chapman did not instantly respond to a petition for remark Thursday.

Duane Chapman, champion known for his long-running A&E world amusement “Dog the Bounty Hunter,” joined Francie Chapman 2 years aft woman Beth Chapman died successful 2021 pursuing a conflict with cancer. He has been joined six times and has a full of 13 children from those marriages.

Zecca made his archetypal tribunal quality astatine the Collier County Courthouse connected Wednesday and is owed backmost for an arraignment proceeding successful March. State prosecutors filed a question this week requesting Zecca stay successful jailhouse pending trial.