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

Attorneys for Gerald Declan Radford will begin presenting their case in a Tampa courtroom on Thursday as Radford stands trial for murder one year after a deadly shooting at a dog park.