A former Arkansas State soccer star and Tennessee Titans scout has been arrested in final 12 months’s poisoning deaths of his girlfriend and her unborn little one in Nashville, Tennessee.
Blaise Taylor, 27, was indicted on two counts of first-degree homicide and arrested by US marshals on Thursday evening in Utah. Nashville police stated Taylor is “alleged” to have fathered the kid.
Taylor is accused of poisoning Jade Benning at her Nashville residence on 25 February 2023. She was rushed to a hospital after Taylor referred to as 911 and reported that she was struggling an allergic response.
Benning’s five-month-old fetus died two days later, and she or he handed away on 6 March – her twenty fifth birthday – with out ever chatting with police.
Following months of investigation by police, scientists and the health worker, authorities decided Benning had been “poisoned with out her data” after Taylor visited her dwelling.
Taylor was a four-year starter as a defensive again and return specialist at Arkansas State from 2014-17. A captain and first-team All-Solar Belt choice, he set the college report for profession punt-return yards (1,151) – returning one for a landing in every of these seasons.
Taylor later labored as a scout for the NFL’s Titans for 4 years earlier than serving as a defensive analyst at Utah State in 2023. Earlier this month, he joined the defensive workers at Texas A&M, the place his father, Trooper Taylor, is the Aggies’ operating backs coach.
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