Son of James Handy's girlfriend charged with actor's murder

Prosecutors filed murder charges on Friday against the man arrested in the fatal stabbing of veteran Hollywood actor James Handy, a familiar face in dozens of films and television shows for half a century and the boyfriend of the suspect's mother.



If convicted, Michael Gledhill, 44, who was jailed as a suspect on Wednesday, faces up to 26 years in prison, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said.



In a separate statement on Thursday, police said Gledhill was arrested after he flagged down police near the murder scene in the city's Tarzana neighborhood on Wednesday and told officers he was the one they were looking for.



Police said officers were dispatched in answer to a cryptic emergency-911 call from a man who told operators: "I am the son of man. I just killed the man of sin."



Responding officers found an 81-year-old man unconscious on the front lawn of his girlfriend's home with a stab wound to the chest. He was pronounced dead shortly afterward at a nearby hospital, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Gledhill lived at his mother's home, police said.