A man accused of decapitating his parents was shot multiple times by police. He sang a Tina Turner song as he bled on the ground.
On July 9, Orange County sheriff’s deputies discovered Joseph Gerdvil on a street near San Juan Mobile Estates while responding to a gruesome murder scene in San Juan Capistrano.
Inside the mobile home, they found the decapitated bodies of his parents, 77-year-old Ronald Gerdvil and 79-year-old Antoinette Gerdvil, alongside their mutilated dog, according to police reports.
Authorities reported that Gerdvil was found shortly after allegedly assaulting a maintenance worker. When police arrived, he was covered in blood, rambling incoherently, and hurled a heavy shovel at them.
Bodycam footage shared by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department shows a harrowing scene.
When a deputy instructed him to stand down, Gerdvil charged forward. The deputy fired five shots at him from approximately ten feet away.
The first three shots appeared to have little impact on the accused killer, but after the fourth, he collapsed to the ground as blood began to seep from his injuries.
The Man Who Allegedly Decapitated His Parents Channels Tina Turner
From there, deputies slap cuffs on Gerdvil and begin attending to his wounds. The suspect’s behavior takes on another level of strangeness from there.
“I love you … I’m sorry you’re gonna have to die,” he can be heard uttering at one point.
“Just finish me off,” he then pled with the arresting deputies. “Put one in my head, please. I beg of you,” he added.
However, the deputies return his request by continuing to attend to his wounds.
Gerdvil then begins to croon 80s standards.
“What’s love got to do with it, got to do with it? What’s love but a second-hand emotion?”, he sang, channeling Tina Turner.
He then belted out another 1984 hit.
“I just called to say I love you,” he sang, doing his best Stevie Wonder.
The suspect was hurried to a nearby hospital, where he was stabilized. He is facing two counts of homicide in connection with the deaths of his parents.