Wild footage shows a California man accused of shooting his parents and their dog by police and then singing Tina Turner's “What's Love Got To Do” as they There was blood on the ground.
Orange County sheriff's deputies found Joseph Gardwell on a road outside San Juan Mobile Estates on July 9 responding to a gruesome homicide scene in San Juan Capistrano.
Police said they had just found her parents — Ronald Gardwell, 77, and Antoinette Gardwell, 79 — dead inside their mobile home along with their mutilated dog D@D.
A head was displayed on a counter.
Gradwell was seen a short time later after allegedly assaulting a maintenance worker, authorities said.
When the police approached him, he was covered in bl00d, mumbled incoherently and threw a heavy shovel at them.
When a deputy ordered him to stand down, Gradwell charged and the officer fired five shots at him from about ten feet away.
The first three shots had little effect on the 41-year-old, but after the fourth shot, he fell to the ground and began bleeding from his wounds.
Within moments, the responding officers began paying attention to Gardwell, and his behavior became even stranger.
“I love you… I'm sorry you have to die,” he said at one point.
“Just finish me,” he said after a few moments. “Put one in my head, please. I beg you.”
Meanwhile, police personnel rushed in to cover the wounds and staunch the bleeding until medical help arrived.
Gardwell then started singing love songs.
“What has love to do with it, what has it to do with it? What is love, but a second-hand passion?” She sang from the 1984 Tina Turner hit.
Gardwell then moved into Stevie Wonder.
“I just called to say I love you,” he sang from the track of the same name, also from 1984.
The suspect was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
He faces two counts of murder in the death of his parents.
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