NY Daily News
November 24, 2013
A star Connecticut high school football player trying to break it off with his older lover stabbed the man to death during a tussle outside the teen’s home, cops say.
Tarence Mitchell, 18, stabbed Ronald Taylor Jr., 27, five times with a steak knife — including at least once in the back — during an argument Thursday night in Bloomfield, WFSB-TV reports.
The fatal slashing came after a two-year relationship, according to court records. The older man plied the teen with pot and alcohol, Mitchell told police, but when the high schooler tried to break off the sexual relationship, “Taylor posted a picture of him on Facebook that included a blog of bad things about him, including him being a Bloomfield gay football star,” the TV station reports.
The older man got jealous when the football captain at Bloomfield High School, in a Hartford suburb, would text girls. He reportedly threatened the teen with a sword, court papers showed.
When Taylor arrived at Mitchell’s house uninvited Thursday, the teen armed himself with the steak knife, he told cops.
Taylor reportedly punched Mitchell in the face before the football star stabbed Taylor three times. When the man fled, Mitchell chased him down to stab him twice more, cops say.