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A former school soccer star is underneath arrest and charged with murdering his girlfriend and their unborn baby with poison.
Blaise Taylor had a stellar profession as a defensive again enjoying main school soccer at Arkansas State University earlier than graduating in 2017. Then the 27-year-old rose by way of the teaching ranks, as he was employed for professional scouting and defensive analyst positions with the NFL‘s Tennessee Titans and Utah State University. And a couple of weeks in the past, he was employed by school soccer powerhouse Texas A&M University, per ESPN.
But that’s throughout now. According to a number of media experiences, the previous standout defensive again was arrested in Utah by US Marshals on Thursday evening. He’s charged with poisoning girlfriend Jade Benning and her unborn fetus in an incident that occurred in late February of final 12 months at her Nashville condo. Taylor had been working as a scout for the Titans on the time; after Jade’s loss of life, he took the Utah State job and spent this previous season with that faculty’s staff.
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While Taylor was in Utah for the previous 12 months, cops in Nashville have been laborious at work investigating Jade’s premature loss of life. The tragedy unfolded on the evening of February 25, 2023. Per arrest information, Taylor was visiting Benning, who was 5 months pregnant, in her Nashville-area condo that night. Just after 9:30 p.m. native time, he referred to as 911 and knowledgeable dispatchers that Benning was having what seemed to be an allergic response to one thing.
Paramedics rushed to the scene and instantly transported Benning to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in crucial situation. However, she fell into unconsciousness earlier than she might communicate with EMTs or responding law enforcement officials. Two days later, her child — who’s believed to have been fathered by Taylor, per WSMV News — died in utero. Then somewhat greater than per week after that, on March 6 — which additionally occurred to be Benning’s twenty fifth birthday — she succumbed to the results of the poisoning, too.
At the time, although, authorities weren’t positive it was a poisoning but. Taylor was not arrested, and Benning’s loss of life was initially considered an allergic response or another medical problem. That detectives have been by no means in a position to interview her earlier than she died made issues much more sophisticated. Soon thereafter, Taylor left the Titans, moved out of Nashville, and took a job with Utah State’s soccer program as a senior defensive analyst for this previous season.
But Benning’s story didn’t finish there. Per WSMV News, the Metro Nashville Police Department assigned Homicide Unit Detective Adam Reese to look deeper into the case. While working alongside medical experts and medical doctors from the coroner’s workplace, Reese was in a position to uncover proof that recommended Benning was poisoned. The indictment in opposition to Taylor alleges he poisoned Benning and her unborn child with out her information on the evening of February 25 previous to calling paramedics.
Now, as an alternative of going to work alongside his dad Trooper Taylor, the affiliate head coach at Texas A&M, Blaise is going through justice. He has formally been charged with two counts of first-degree homicide — one for Benning and one other for her unborn child. Per the US Sun, Nashville cops are working with the US Marshals and authorities in Utah to have Taylor extradited again to Tennessee.
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