We’re listening to the reaction following a not-guilty verdict in the Tampa dog park shooting. Witnesses who testified in the trial of Gerald Declan Radford are speaking out.

After deliberating for about 2½ 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. Prosecutors had also sought a hate crime enhancement, arguing Radford was motivated to shoot Lay because he was gay.

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

Gerald Radford has been found NOT GUILTY of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Walter Lay at a Tampa dog park.

February, William Genovese ran into Gerald Radford at the West Dog Park in Tampa. The two men got to talking about some other people they knew at the park, Genovese recalled Wednesday from the witness stand of a Tampa courtroom.