While Hartman was asleep, Brynn entered their bedroom and fatally shot him three times—once in the head and twice in the chest.
After confessing the murder to a friend, Brynn locked herself in the bedroom and took her own life with the same weapon.
The couple’s two young children, who were home at the time, were thankfully unharmed and placed in the care of family members.
Marvin Gaye had a troubled relationship with his father, which was marked by years of tension, conflict, and abuse.
Gay Sr. was also known in his community for being a cross-dresser, which turned the singer into the target of bullying throughout his childhood.
On the day of the murder, an argument between Gaye and his father escalated into a physical altercation. After the fight, Marvin Gay Sr. retrieved a gun that Marvin had given him as a gift and shot his son twice at close range.
Gay Sr. was convicted of voluntary manslaughter after a plea bargain and was sentenced to a suspended six-year prison term and five years of probation.
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