{"id":2774,"date":"2025-07-21T05:48:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:14:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:14:47","slug":"dog-the-bounty-hunters-grandson-13-shot-dead-by-own-father-in-tragic-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/dog-the-bounty-hunters-grandson-13-shot-dead-by-own-father-in-tragic-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog the Bounty Hunter\u2019s grandson, 13, shot dead by own father in \u2018tragic accident\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dog the Bounty Hunter is mourning the death of his grandson (Picture: Getty\/Instagram)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dog the Bounty Hunter<\/a> is grieving after an ‘incomprehensible’ family tragedy.<\/p>\n

The 78-year-old reality star, whose real name is Duane Chapman, is mourning after his stepson Gregory Zecca, 38, allegedly shot and killed his 13-year-old son Anthony in what has been described as a ‘tragic accident’.<\/p>\n

Dog is not directly related to Anthony or Gregory, who his wife Francie shares with her late husband<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a statement to TMZ<\/a>, a spokesperson for Dog and Francie said: ‘We are grieving as a family over this incomprehensible tragic accident and would ask for continued prayers as we grieve the loss of our beloved grandson, Anthony.’<\/p>\n

Police confirmed to the outlet that they responded to a call at around 8pm local time.<\/p>\n

The shooting has been described as an ‘isolated incident’ with no arrests made as of yet, while an investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n

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Francie had Gregory and Anthony (front) with her late husband (Picture: Instagram)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Anthony Zecca has died aged 13 (Picture: Instagram)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Dog and Francie got married in 2021 after both losing their respective partners to cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

‘For a living, she’s a rancher and she recently lost her husband to cancer six months before I lost Beth Chapman,’ he told TMZ Live in 2020.<\/p>\n

‘So we hopped on the phone<\/a>, started talking to each other, crying and consoling each other and then one thing led to another and it’s just incredible that I’ve been able to meet someone like her.<\/p>\n

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Dog previously opened up on how Francie helped him heal (Picture: Andy Cross\/MediaNews Group\/The Denver Post via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘With Francie, I’m allowed to speak about Beth, we speak about her husband. We cry. We hold each other.’<\/p>\n

Dog, who has 13 children, revealed how Francie was helping him heal from the death of his wife Beth.<\/p>\n

He said: ‘I am a fixer. I have to catch bad guys. I got to be at the top of my game. I can’t feel sorry for myself or guilty.<\/p>\n

‘I got to go out there and make a difference. That’s what I do for a living so I’ve got to man up. She helps me do that.’<\/p>\n

Dog the Bounty Hunter’s real life tragedies<\/h2>\n

The death of Dog the Bounty Hunter’s grandson comes six years after his wife Beth died after being diagnosed with cancer in 2017.<\/p>\n

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Duane Chapman’s wife Beth died in 2019 (Picture: Wade Payne\/Invision\/AP, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Her death and the latest heartbreaking incident is the latest in a string of family struggles over Duane Chapman’s life.<\/p>\n

In 2017 memoir You Can Run But You Can’t Hide, he recalled receiving regular beatings from his father, which he believed was punishment for ‘being a terrible sinner’.<\/p>\n

‘Until very recently, I never understood that none of his abuse was my fault. I just thought that was how all dads treated their sons,’ he wrote.<\/p>\n

‘I was desperate for his affection, so I ignored the pain.’<\/p>\n

Chapman was later convicted on a murder charged for a 1976 incident where his friend shot an alleged drug dealer while he waited in the car.<\/p>\n

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Chapman has had issues with the law over the years (Picture: Kypros\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to Texas law, anyone directly involved in a murder can be charged, and he served 18 months of a five-year sentence.<\/p>\n

In the early 1990s, Dog discovered he had fathered a son with ex-girlfriend Debbie White, who kept her pregnancy from him while he served his sentence.<\/p>\n

She took her own life in 1978 and the boy, Christopher, was adopted by Keith and Gloria Hetch, and he was jailed in 2021 on menacing charges.<\/p>\n

‘I\u2019ve helped Chris numerous times and will again when he is released from prison,’ the reality star told The Sun in 2021.<\/p>\n

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Dog found out his daughter Barbara had died the morning of his wedding to Beth (Picture: Frederick M. Brown\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2009, there was heartbreak for the family when Dog’s 23-year-old daughter Barbara Katie Chapman – who he had with ex wife ‘Big’ Lyssa Brittain – died in a car accident on his and Beth’s wedding day.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Barbara’s sister Lyssa once admitted to falsely accusing him of ‘raping [her] when [she] was 11’.<\/p>\n

She previously said: ‘It was a horrible life that I never wanted to go back to, living with him and Beth and the fighting and the drugs.<\/p>\n

‘When I got to my mother\u2019s, although she drank, it was much more peaceful. I was willing to do anything to not go back.’<\/p>\n

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