{"id":719168,"date":"2026-06-06T14:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/719168\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T14:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:56:20","slug":"veteran-actor-james-handy-found-stabbed-to-death-in-los-angeles-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/719168\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran actor James Handy found stabbed to death in Los Angeles &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actor James Handy, a veteran in the industry who most recently starred in Top Gun: Maverick, was found stabbed to death outside a home in Los Angeles on Thursday, according to investigators. He was 81.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LAPDPIO\/status\/2062574797129916528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">statement on Thursday<\/a> that the suspect, 44-year-old Michael Gledhill, waved down officers, telling them he was the one they were looking for after a 911 call was made to a residence in the Tarzana neighbourhood, an area in the northwest Los Angeles area, around 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LAPD News Release: Murder Investigation in West Valley Area <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bpIrl5Ox1S\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bpIrl5Ox1S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LAPD PIO (@LAPDPIO) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LAPDPIO\/status\/2062574797129916528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The 911 caller said, \u201cI am the son of man, I just killed the man of sin,\u201d according to the police statement.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>Police found Handy unconscious in the front yard of a residence with a stab wound to the chest. He was taken to a local hospital by the Los Angeles Fire Department, where he was pronounced dead, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect\u2019s mother was Handy\u2019s girlfriend, police said, who lived with his mother at the property where Handy\u2019s body was found.<\/p>\n<p>Handy\u2019s agent Pam Ellis-Evenas confirmed his death to Global News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with great sadness that I can confirm that the gentleman who was killed in Tarzana on Wednesday was actor James Handy,\u201d she wrote in an email statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could not have asked for a more talented, humble or gracious client and friend than James Handy. He was respected among his peers and an absolute joy to work with,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Entertainment<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tThis image made from video provided by KABC shows the scene at a home where authorities were investigating the fatal stabbing of actor James Handy on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, in Los Angeles.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tKABC via AP\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Detectives said they believe the stabbing was an isolated incident and that there is no immediate threat to public safety. They did not provide a motive.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Gledhill was arrested and transported to Van Nuys jail, where he was booked on one count of murder, with bail set at US$2 million.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his role as the bartender Jimmy in the 2022 film Top Gun: Maverick, Handy appeared in the films Arachnophobia and Jumanji, as well as numerous television productions.<\/p>\n<p>He played a doctor in the 2017 film Logan and had TV roles in ER, Matlock, Quantum Leap, NCIS: Los Angeles, CSI: New York, NYPD Blue and Law &amp; Order, among others.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor James Handy, a veteran in the industry who most recently starred in Top Gun: Maverick, was found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,20920],"class_list":["post-719168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-stabbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}