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Gerald Declan Radford shot and killed John Walter Lay at the West Dog Park in Tampa, Florida, authorities said. (Mug shot: Hillsborough County Sheriff

Gerald Declan Radford shot and killed John Walter Lay at the West Dog Park in Tampa, Florida, authorities said. (Mug shot: Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office; screenshot of the park: WTVT; and screen of Lay: WTSP)

A shooter claimed that he killed another man at a dog park in self-defense, but investigators found witness statements and the victim’s own words to discover that the defendant threatened and hated him for being gay, say deputies and prosecutors in Hillsborough County, Florida.

“You’re gonna die,” the suspect, Gerald Declan Radford, 65, said, according to the now-dead, John Walter Lay, 52.

The fatal shooting happened the morning of Feb. 2 at the West Dog Park in the Egypt Lake-Leto area. Deputies responded.

They found Lay at the scene and tried to save his life, but he was pronounced dead at a hospital.

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