James Handy’s partner, Wendy Gledhill, detailed nan actor’s tragic last moments earlier he was allegedly stabbed to decease by her son, Michael Gledhill.
“James had gotten up to get nan newspaper astatine astir 9 o’clock, but he didn’t make nan java for illustration he usually does,” Wendy told nan Daily Mail during an question and reply astatine her and nan “Top Gun: Maverick” star’s three-bedroom location in Los Angeles.
“I conscionable heard nan doorway unfastened because he was getting nan paper,” she added.
Wendy said she was still successful furniture and didn’t deliberation thing retired of nan mean was occurring.
“I tin only presume my boy was already retired location and they started to argue, from my understanding, connected nan beforehand yard,” she recalled to nan outlet.
Thirty minutes later, nan Los Angeles Police Department knocked connected their doorway and Wendy said she “didn’t cognize what was going on.”
“The first clip I heard thing was happening was erstwhile nan constabulary showed up,” she shared. “They said personification had called 911 and they told maine personification was wrapped successful a broad extracurricular nan house.”
Wendy said she didn’t cognize who nan cops were talking about. She was past instructed to get distant from nan doorway because they “thought location was still personification vulnerable outside.”
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Wendy — who has been Handy’s woman for much than 3 decades — said she believes her boy Michael, who has been diagnosed pinch schizophrenia, suffered a intelligence wellness situation aft he stopped taking his medicine nan anterior week.
“So I don’t deliberation he was taking it astatine nan clip [of nan alleged attack], but I don’t cognize for sure,” she told nan Daily Mail.
Wendy — whose boy Michael, 44, had been surviving pinch her and nan “Jumanji” prima — said she has nary thought what caused nan confrontation.
She told nan outlet that she hasn’t near nan location since nan calamity because she is “beyond devastated.”
“I was pinch James for 31 years and of people I loved him dearly,” she said. “This is truthful difficult.”
Handy was killed connected June 3. He was 81.
The “K-9” character was recovered unconscious and bleeding retired aft he was many times stabbed successful nan thorax astatine his home, according to a constabulary report.
Handy was rushed to a section hospital, wherever he was pronounced dead.
Michael was arrested and charged pinch 1 count of murder for nan “K-911” star’s decease aft he called 911 pinch a chilling confession.
He is facing up to 26 years successful prison.