“He said, ‘I’m going to hit that guy, I’m going to break his jaw,‘” Genovese recalled during the second day of testimony in Radford’s murder trial. He said Radford told him that when he saw Lay, he liked to walk up on him quickly “to try and scare him.”

A Florida man was found not guilty of second-degree murder after a fatal shooting at a Tampa dog park. Gerald Radford testifies in his own defense during a stand-your-ground hearing in Tampa. (Court TV) A jury acquitted Gerald Declan Radford of second-degree murder in the shooting death of 52-year-old John Walter Lay.

A Hillsborough County jury found Gerald Declan Radford not guilty for the shooting of a gay man at a Tampa dog park last year.