A 41-year-old man accused of decapitating his dad and mom and killing their canine began to sing Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Acquired to Do With It” after he was shot by an Orange County Sheriff’s deputy.
Joseph Brandon Gerdvil was arrested on suspicion of killing his dad and mom, 77-year-old Ronald Walter Gerdvil and 79-year-old Antoinette Gerdvil of their San Juan Capistrano residence on July 9, in accordance with the Orange County Sheriff’s Division.
In physique digital camera video of the incident launched Friday, a blood-soaked Gerdvil is proven with a steel object in his hand approaching a sheriff’s deputy moments earlier than he’s shot, then swearing and singing after he’s on the bottom wounded.
Authorities say the sequence of disturbing occasions started with Gerdvil textual content messaging images of his bloodied mom to a cousin.
That relative known as 911 round 7:30 a.m. to report a doable home assault on their aged family who dwell in a cell residence group within the 32000 block of Alipaz Avenue, authorities mentioned. She advised dispatchers her cousin suffers from psychological well being points and has been violent up to now.
One other dispatcher, in the meantime, obtained a 911 name from a upkeep employee on the similar cell residence group who reported they had been being chased by a bloodied man with a fork, authorities mentioned.
The bloodied man, later recognized as Gerdvil, drove off within the upkeep employee’s golf cart in an unknown path.
Sheriff’s deputies who arrived on the scene discovered an individual on the bottom bleeding and a ugly scene inside Gerdvil’s dad and mom’ residence.
“There’s a head on the counter,” one of many deputies on scene advised dispatchers.
Gerdvil reappeared on a motorbike path a short while later after which approached a Sheriff’s Division group service officer as she sat in her automobile, in accordance with authorities. He then threw a shovel on the officer’s automobile and drove off within the golf cart.
Physique digital camera footage exhibits what occurred subsequent: A blood-soaked Gerdvil parked the golf cart on the sidewalk and approached a deputy whereas carrying a steel object.
He ignored the deputy’s orders and shouted one thing unintelligible earlier than the deputy fired 5 occasions and Gerdvil fell to the bottom.
“F— you,” Gerdvil mentioned as he lay on the bottom wounded.
Gerdvil then rolled onto his abdomen and was handcuffed.
He might be heard telling deputies “I really like you” and “I’m sorry you’re gonna should die” whereas dealing with the bottom.
As deputies assessed his wounds, Gerdvil mentioned, “End me off.”
“Put one in my head, please. I urge of you,” he mentioned.
At one level as he lay on the bottom bleeding, and regulation enforcement and first responders moved frantically across the crime scene, Gerdvil broke out into track.
“What’s love received to do with it. What’s love, however a secondhand emotion?” he sang softly, quoting the 1984 Tina Turner hit.
He then shifted to Stevie Marvel and sang, “I simply known as to say I really like you” because the deputies gave him medical consideration.
It’s unclear what number of occasions he was hit however the unnamed deputy who shot Gerdvil later advised different deputies on the scene he aimed for his chest and abdomen.
Gerdvil was booked on suspicion of two counts of murder and stays on the hospital, in accordance with authorities.
There have been no deputies injured and the capturing is underneath investigation by the Orange County district lawyer’s workplace. The killings are underneath investigation by the Orange County Sheriff’s Division murder element.
