Patrick David Denney, 60, a male of White/Caucasian ethnicity from Clearwater, Florida, died on August 19, 2025. Deputies with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office were dispatched just after 1 a.m. to a residence on Illinois Road after a 911 caller reported a loud noise and a woman's voice saying, “I have a gun.” Inside the home, deputies found Patrick David Denney, 60, with a gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators identified the location as 1538 Illinois Road in unincorporated Clearwater and documented signs that someone had tried to clean up the scene. According to an arrest affidavit summarized by multiple outlets, the woman at the home appeared freshly showered and had blood transfer on her face, legs, and feet; deputies also noted bloody footprints inside. A. 45-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun was recovered in another room, along with two spent. 45 shell casings, and detectives also seized a Zastava pistol from the residence. A bullet hole was found in a window and the fence line between properties, and a. 45-caliber projectile was later recovered inside a neighbor's home.
The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office named Amanda Leigh Tenney as the suspect. Amanda Leigh Tenney, 38, who lived at the same Illinois Road address, was detained on August 19, 2025, and initially arrested on charges of felon in possession of a firearm and shooting into an occupied dwelling. After further investigation, on September 16, 2025, detectives added a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Patrick David Denney, 60. She was booked into the Pinellas County Jail and held on the murder charge while the investigation continued.
Authorities described the relationship between Amanda Leigh Tenney and Patrick David Denney, 60, as romantic and previously intimate, with some outlets referring to Patrick David Denney, 60, as her boyfriend or former partner. Public statements from the sheriff's office and subsequent reporting indicated she did not call 911 after the shooting, and that evidence at the scene suggested an attempt to clean up. As of the most recent public updates, the case remained an active homicide investigation with first-degree murder as the top charge against Amanda Leigh Tenney.
Alongside law enforcement releases and local news coverage, an obituary confirmed that Patrick David Denney, 60, of Clearwater, died on August 19, 2025. Community remembrances and gun-violence registries likewise recorded the loss of Patrick David Denney, 60, in Clearwater on that date.
