Zac Stacy, former NFL player, was arrested after a video reportedly showed him beating his ex-girlfriend in front of their baby in her Florida home
This story involves details of domestic violence. If you need assistance, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233. Zac Stacy, a former NFL player, was arrested in Orange County after a video reportedly showed him beating his ex-girlfriend in front of their 5-month-old son in her Florida home. The video — obtained and released by TMZ — has gone viral on social media, and the former NFL football running back for the New York Jets and then-St. Louis Rams was booked into jail Thursday, according to Orange County Corrections Department records. Here’s what we know. A surveillance video showed Stacy beating his former girlfriend in front of their 5-month-old son, according to a redacted arrest affidavit obtained by USA TODAY and The Tennessean. The affidavit stated the Oakland Police Department responded to an emergency at the victim’s home Nov.13, where officers found that she “appeared to be emotionally distraught with tears in her eyes.” The affidavit stated that the victim’s shirt was torn, she had food in her hair, a large, flat-screen television was knocked over and broken, there was food scattered on the floor and a baby’s bouncy chair was knocked over and broken. An arrest warrant for Stacy,30, was issued Wednesday, records show. TMZ published the video and story about the former NFL player on Thursday, and the video quickly went viral. Stacy faces charges of aggravated battery and criminal mischief (under $1,000) and was booked into jail Thursday, according to Orange County Corrections Department records. Oakland police said it got a tip that Stacy was boarding a flight from Nashville to Orlando with the intention of turning himself in, the department said in a news release Friday morning.
