“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 Tampa jury found Gerald Declan Radford not guilty in the deadly shooting at a dog park after just two hours of deliberations. The verdict comes nearly one year after the murder.

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

The man accused of murder in the shooting death of a gay man at a Tampa dog park last year was acquitted Thursday. After deliberating for about 2 1/2 hours, a six-person jury found that Gerald Declan Radford did not commit second-degree murder when he shot John Walter Lay at the West Dog Park last year.

Testimony resumed in a Tampa courtroom on Wednesday in the trial of Gerald Declan Radford, who's accused of targeting and killing another man at a dog park because he was gay.

Gerald Radford’s hostility toward John Walter Lay was sparked by Lay asking him out for a beer, a prosecutor said Tuesday during an opening statement.

Testimony resumed in a Tampa courtroom on Wednesday in the trial of Gerald Declan Radford, who's accused of targeting and killing another man at a dog park because he was gay. Aaron Mesmer reports.

Opening statements are set to begin for a man charged with killing another person at a Hillsborough County dog park.

Gerald Radford is standing trial for a fatal shooting at a Tampa dog park. Radford is charged with a hate crime for killing John "Walt" Lay.

The second-degree murder trial of Gerald Declan Radford got underway at the Hillsborough County courthouse today.