Gunshot Horror & ‘Blood-Curdling Screams!’ Tim McGraw Named In Brutal Murder Case
Jan. 30 2017, Updated 2:42 p.m. ET
Tim McGraw has been dragged into a bloody murder case, Breaking Celebrity News has learned, after his own uncle gunned down an innocent man – and his dog!
Tim’s uncle, Dennis McGraw, unleashed the grisly slaughter almost 15 years ago, but now, Breaking Celebrity News has learned, he is due to be set free in just a matter of months.
Dennis shot his neighbor, Jason Garfield, in a horrific 2002 brawl outside their apartment building in Vallejo, California, after the two had argued nonstop for months.
A police eyewitness described how he heard “blood curdling screams” and the victim “begging for life” as he was riddled with bullets in the arm, hip, thigh, and head.
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The officer who witnessed the last shot described it in court documents as a “hard contact wound, meaning the muzzle of the gun was pressed against the victim’s head.” But he couldn’t stop madman Dennis before he pulled the trigger to deliver the fatal bullet.
The officer then called for backup as he could not overpower the gun-toting maniac alone.
After his arrest, Dennis told police that he had bought his gun to protect himself from Jason, who lived in the apartment next to his. Even more disturbingly, he also admitted killing his neighbor’s dog a few weeks before the bloody attack, insisting it was “tormenting him with its barking.”
The dog’s owner suffered a similarly brutal fate: Court papers state Dennis had “intended to put as many round into the victim as he possibly could because he wanted to end it.”
“He told officers he intended to shoot the victim in the head, but he did not think it would kill him, as his rifle was only a .22 calibre,” the documents state.
Dennis was convicted of first degree murder in 2003 and given a sentence of 50 years to life. He spent time at San Quentin and Salinas Valley State Prisons before his conviction was overturned on appeal after he argued he had not received proper legal representation at trial.
However, his appeal trial was then suspended after he complained of hearing voices and seeing figures.
Before his conviction, Dennis had been on medication for mental health problems and he was eventually diagnosed as having schizoaffective disorder. As a result, he was moved to a mental health facility in 2006 and then to the secure Crestwood Behavioural Health Center in Sacramento, where he has remained since.