A man wanted in connection to the fatal stabbing of an NFL quarterback’s brother and another man during a fight over a woman has been arrested after four days on the run.
Police said Michael Mosley, 23, who was the prime suspect in the fatal attacks, was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Ashland City, Tennessee.
He is alleged to have stabbed to death Clayton Beathard – whose brother of San Francisco 49ers back-up quarterback C.J. Beathard – and Paul Trapeni III, 21, after a fight outside Dogwood Bar on Saturday, December 21.
A third victim, Alvin Jefferson Bethurum, 21, suffered injuries to his eye and arm and is continuing the recover, authorities said.
Michael Mosley, 23, who was the prime suspect in the fatal attacks, was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Ashland City, Tennessee
Police surrounded a vacant home on Christmas Day where Michael Mosley was holed up and ultimately surrendered
Mosley evaded police for four days and was found on Christmas Day alone in a vacant home when police surrounded and moved in before he surrendered, Nashville Police said.
Police said Mosley has a violent criminal past.
‘He is a convicted felon, convicted of violent crimes,’ Don Aaron, spokesman for the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department, told ABC News.
The stabbings on Saturday night ‘appear to have resulted from an argument over a woman that began inside Dogwood Bar and then turned physical when the parties went outside’, police said.
One of the victims, Clayton Beathard, 22, was a quarterback at Long Island University. He is the brother of NFL quarterback C.J Beathard
Paul Trapeni III (left), 21, died in hospital after suffering stab wounds to his side. Another victim, Alvin Bethurum, 21, is recovering from injuries to his arm and eye
During the attack, Beathard and Paul Trapeni both suffered stab wounds to their sides and both taken to Vanderbilt Medical Center where they were pronounced dead.
The third victim, Bethurum, is still recovering from his injuries.
At the time of the deadly altercation, police said Mosley was free on $5,000 bond for attacking a 37-year-old woman at a Walmart in December 2018.
Nashville cops said Mosley’s criminal past included squirting urine from a shampoo bottle at a employee of a Davidson County jail facility on Christmas Day 2015.
In December 2017, he was sentenced to concurrent three-and-a-half year terms for stabbing a man and cutting a woman.
One of Mosley’s alleged victims, Clayton Beathard, is the brother of San Francisco 49ers quarterback C.J. Beathard
The Beathard brothers are grandsons of Hall of Fame football executive Bobby Beathard and sons of country music songwriter Casey Beathard and Susan Beathard.
The 49ers released a statement saying that they were shocked and deeply saddened to hear about the tragedy.
‘We extend our heartfelt sympathies to C.J and the entire Beathard family as they cope with the unthinkable loss of a loved one. C.J has traveled home to join his family knowing he has the support of our entire organization as they grieve the passing of Clayton.’
Beathard was a student at Long Island University, where he played quarterback on its football team.
In a statement on its Facebook page, LIU Athletics paid tribute to him, saying: ‘LIU community mourns the loss of our student, athlete, friend, and leader.’
The brother of one murder victim is a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers