James Handy stabbing latest: Eerie 911 call revealed after son of Top Gun star’s girlfriend arrested ⁠53%

By Joe Sommerlad⁠95% Katie Hawkinson⁠71%

6/5/2026, 3:01:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Availability Heuristic, and Biased Writer Voice, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 47.4% saturation with 100 hits. Analysis detected 368 faulty-reasoning hits from 211 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 44.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠53% (14,402 of 30,584 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 52.90% of the article peer group.

Police revealed the eerie 911 call that led them to James Handy after he was fatally stabbed in Los Angeles. 
The 81-year-old character actor was known for iconic roles in films including Top Gun: Maverick and Jumanji. 
His girlfriend’s son has been arrested on suspicion of murder. 
Officers responded Wednesday morning to a home in the Tarzana neighborhood after a 911 caller said, “I am the son of man, I just killed the man of sin,” according to the Los Angeles Police Department. 
There, they found Handy unconscious in the front yard, suffering from a stab wound to his chest. 
He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. 
Michael Gledhill, the 44-year-old son of Handy’s girlfriend, has been arrested and booked into Van Nuys jail. 
Gledhill told officers “he was the one they were looking for” shortly after the stabbing, according to police. 
Gledhill lived at the home with his mother, police said. 
His bail was set at $2 million. 
Handy made his film debut in 1981 and also appeared Bird, Arachnophobia, The Rocketeer, Logan and Suburbicon. 
He appeared on several TV shows, including NYPD Blue, The X-Files and The West Wing. 
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211 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker17%attributed speech175writer words
100%flagged-word coverage
36 attributed words100% of attributed speech82% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+84.0 ptsWriter: 16.0%Los Angeles Police Department: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-20.6 ptsWriter: 20.6%Los Angeles Police Department: 0.0%0.0%Quote-first Misdirection-9.1 ptsWriter: 9.1%Los Angeles Police Department: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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