Man Accused Of Killing LIU Quarterback Pleads Not Guilty
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CBSNewYork/AP) — The man accused of killing Long Island University quarterback Clayton Beathard pleaded not guilty Friday morning in front of a judge in Tennessee.
Michael Mosley, 23, was charged with two counts of criminal homicide and one count of attempted criminal homicide in the deaths of Beathard, 22, and Paul Trapeni III, 21, and the wounding of a third man in an altercation early Saturday, according to Nashville police.
Mosley, who was arrested on Christmas Day after a days-long manhunt, is being held without bond.
Beathard was the brother of San Francisco 49ers' backup quarterback C.J. Beathard.
Investigators say the attack started as an argument over an "unwanted advancement" made by a man toward a woman at the bar, according to a statement by Nashville police. The woman was a friend of the victims, police said.
Mosley previously was convicted of robbery, felony aggravated assault, and misdemeanor assault. In the aggravated assault case, he was found to have stabbed a man and cut a woman in 2015.
In the misdemeanor assault case, he was found to have squirted urine out of a shampoo bottle onto a jail employee on Christmas Day that year.
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