WASHINGTON – Actor James Handy, known for his role in Top Gun: Maverick, has died after being stabbed at his home in Los Angeles.
Trade publication Variety reported on Thursday, citing police, that emergency responders were called to the north-west of the city on Wednesday morning, where officers found the 81-year-old unconscious in the front garden of his property with a stab wound to the chest.
He was taken to hospital by paramedics and was later pronounced dead. A suspect later turned himself in to police at the scene and was reported to be the son of the victim's girlfriend.
Police said they received an emergency call from a man who stated: "I am the son of man, I just killed the man of sin."
A spokesman for the actor confirmed Handy's death to Variety.
Handy played bartender Jimmy in the 2022 action film Top Gun: Maverick. He also appeared in the 1995 adventure film Jumanji. – BERNAMA