{"id":79469,"date":"2025-07-21T01:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/79469\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T01:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:59:10","slug":"dog-the-bounty-hunters-stepgrandson-13-shot-and-killed-by-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/79469\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog the Bounty Hunter&#8217;s stepgrandson, 13, shot and killed by father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dog the Bounty Hunter is going though an unimaginable tragedy after his stepgrandson, Anthony Zecca, was accidentally shot and killed by his father, Gregory Zecca.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory \u2014 who\u2019s the son of Dog\u2019s wife, Francie Frane \u2014 accidentally shot his 13-year-old son in a \u201cfreak accident\u201d on Saturday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/07\/20\/dog-the-bounty-hunter-step-grandson-anthony-accidentally-killed\/#continued\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TMZ reported<\/a> Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred in their apartment in Naples, Florida, per the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>The Collier County Sheriff\u2019s Office tells Page Six that deputies responded to a report of a shooting at 8:08 p.m. in Naples. One person was deceased. According to police, it was an isolated incident.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made and it\u2019s an active investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dog the Bounty Hunter\u2019s 13-year-old stepgrandson, Anthony Zecca (pictured here), was accidentally shot and killed by his father, Gregory Zecca, in a tragic accident, TMZ reported Sunday. Instagram\/franciedogchapman<\/p>\n<p>The Collier County Sheriff\u2019s Office tells Page Six that the shooting was an isolated incident. No arrests have been made and it\u2019s an active investigation.\u00a0 Instagram\/franciedogchapman<\/p>\n<p>Dog \u2014 whose real name is Duane Chapman \u2014 and Francie confirmed the tragic loss in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grieving as a family over this incomprehensible tragic accident and would ask for continued prayers as we grieve the loss of our beloved grandson, Anthony,\u201d they said in a statement to TMZ.<\/p>\n<p>Dog\u2019s rep didn\u2019t immediately respond to Page Six\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Dog is the father to 13 children from six different relationships. He married Francie \u2014 a rancher from Colorado \u2014 in September 2021. <\/p>\n<p>Their wedding took place 10 months after his wife, Beth Chapman, died following a battle with throat cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grieving as a family over this incomprehensible tragic accident and would ask for continued prayers as we grieve the loss of our beloved grandson, Anthony,\u201d Dog and his wife, Francie Frane, said in a statement to TMZ. Instagram\/franciedogchapman<\/p>\n<p>Dog and Francie \u2014 Gregory\u2019s mom \u2014 have been married since September 2021. Instagram\/duanedogchapman<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Dog and Francie were also brought together through tragedy after she also lost her spouse to cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Francie lost her husband, Bob, an excavator, to the disease just six months before\u00a0Beth died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understood the pain that the other one was feeling and [in] those tough days and moments, we helped each other stand up,\u201d Francie said in a September 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/dog-the-bounty-hunter-and-new-fiancee-tear-up-sharing-their-miracle-love-story-exclusive-153016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with Entertainment Tonight<\/a>. \u201cWe could cry with each other and talk about what we were feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were able to walk alongside each other through the pain and heartbreak and it brought us together in this amazing way,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Dog previously shared that Francie had two sons that were hunters. duanedogchapman\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Dog and Francie are no strangers to tragedy. They bonded over losing their spouses to cancer. SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>Dog briefly <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tv\/dog-the-bounty-hunter-opens-up-about-first-bounty-hunt-with-fiancee-francie-frane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke about Francie\u2019s children<\/a> in a September 2020 appearance on \u201cThe Dr. Oz Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_83-0\">\u201cI know she\u2019s a hunter. Her and her two sons have hunted bow hunt, so they track, they look for things that the prey leaves behind,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_85-0\">\u201cShe just fit right in,\u201d he added about his first bounty hunt with Francie. \u201cShe started getting leads and writing them down, so there\u2019s more than just tracking and hunting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dog the Bounty Hunter is going though an unimaginable tragedy after his stepgrandson, Anthony Zecca, was accidentally shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":79470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1899,1857,172,54694,171,177,3677,6003,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-79469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-celebrity-deaths","9":"tag-celebrity-families","10":"tag-celebrity-news","11":"tag-dog-the-bounty-hunter-chapman","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-reality-stars","14":"tag-shootings","15":"tag-tragedy","16":"tag-tv","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114888754828526048","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}