Wild footage shows a California man accused of dec@pitating his parents and their dog being shot by cops and then singing Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got to Do With It” as he lay ble£ding on the ground.
Orange County sheriff’s deputies found Joseph Gerdvil on a street outside the San Juan Mobile Estates while responding to a grisly murder scene in San Juan Capistrano on July 9.
They had just found the he@dless bodies of his parents — 77-year-old Ronald Gerdvil and 79-year-old Antoinette Gerdvil — along with their mutilated de@d dog in their mobile home, police said.
One of the heads was displayed on a counter.
Gerdvil was spotted a short time later after allegedly attacking a maintenance worker, authorities said.
When police approached him, he was covered in bl00d, babbling incoherently and threw a heavy shovel at them.
When a deputy ordered him to stand down, Gerdvil charged and the officer unloaded five shots at him from about ten feet away.
The first three bullets seemed to have little effect on the 41-year-old, but after the fourth, he dropped to the ground and blood started pouring from his wounds.
Within moments responding officers began tending to Gerdvil, and his behaviour became even stranger
“I love you… I’m sorry you’re gonna have to die,” he said at one point.
“Just finish me off,” he said moments later. “Put one in my head, please. I beg of you.”
Cops meanwhile, rushed to cover the wounds and slow the bleeding until medical help arrived.
Gerdvil then started singing love songs.
“What’s love got to do with it, got to with it? What’s love, but a second-hand emotion?” he sang from the 1984 Tina Turner hit.
Gerdvil then moved to 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 rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was stabilized.
He faces two counts of homicide over the deaths of his parents.
Watch the video below.
41-year-old Joseph Gerdvil is shot by police after KILLING HIS OWN PARENTS and dog.
When approached by police he charged at them with a metal object in his hand.
📍San Juan Capistrano, California. 2024. pic.twitter.com/kxKjBqf97a
— POLICE SHOOTING (@PoliceSho0tings) August 25, 2024