Getty Former New York Jets running back Zac Stacy on September 3, 2015.
Former New York Jets running back Zac Stacy is in the news again.
A graphic video surfaced in November 2021 that Stacy’s ex-girlfriend Kristin Evans said shows him assaulting her. According to an affidavit for an arrest warrant from the Oakland Police Department in Florida, police were unable to locate Stacy, 30, following the incident on November 13. The warrant was granted, and the former NFL pro was arrested at about 10:30 p.m. November 18 in Orlando on felony charges of aggravated battery with great bodily harm and criminal mischief, the arrest affidavit indicates.
Approximately three months later, a February 23 TMZ report revealed that Stacy is now facing five additional charges stemming from an earlier incident in August 2021 to which police also responded.
Orange County court records show that on February 15, State Attorney Monique Worrell charged Stacy, whose full name is Zackary Latrell Stacy, with three counts of misdemeanor domestic violence battery and two counts of misdemeanor criminal mischief in an altercation police responded to on August 16. Court documents indicate he assaulted Evans “in the presence of” their child and damaged both her vehicle and pool. He’s set to appear in court on those charges on March 16, the court website shows.
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Details of Incidents & Charges
According to New York Post reporters Marjorie Hernandez and Jack Morphet, there is recorded audio of three separate 911 phone calls made by Evans — the first of which is the subject of the five new charges — from August through November of 2021.
The Post reported:
The first 911 call and corresponding police incident report dates back to August, when the couple had an argument about rent money, around the time a messy child custody battle began. Evans said she hid in her bedroom and placed a teary call to 911 on Aug. 16 in which she begged an operator for police to remove Stacy from the house.
The recording quoted Evans, stating, “Domestic dispute. I just need him removed from the house. I don’t need him arrested or anything, I just need him gone. … He’s not armed, nothing like that, just needs to leave.”
The second call was made on September 26, per Hernandez and Morphet:
Evans told the operator Stacy had smacked her across the face. Stacy had brought a baby car seat around to Evans’ home in Oakland Fla. when the pair began arguing about where he was living after she kicked him out in late August.
The Post later noted that “Stacy filed a paternity suit three weeks before the third 911 call, alleging Evans was withholding access to their son.”
The final November 13 call stemmed from the video that led to Stacy’s November arrest, the Post reported.
“He threw me and hit me and looks like he busted my TV, I don’t know. … I can’t even remember, I don’t know. … He threw his food at my son, at our son,” Evans told the 911 operator, according to the Post.
According to the affidavit for arrest warrant, when police responded to the November 911 call, “Evans’s shirt was torn, and she had food in her hair. The television was knocked over and damaged after the perpetrator threw the victim into it, and the remote was broken on the floor. Food was spilled all around the living room, and the baby’s bouncy chair was knocked over and broken.” Police wrote that Stacy hit Evans in the head with an unknown object and with his fist, yelled at her and “threw her onto the baby’s bouncy chair” before walking out the front door, giving her the opening to call for help.
The arrest warrant affidavit indicates Evans “received a contusion to her face, bruises to her torso, contusion to her left leg, and abrasions to her right leg.”
TMZ released direct quotes from Evans’ restraining order application, which stated: “He physically assaulted me several times because he wanted the money back he gave me for our rent. … He punched my legs, slapped me, picked me up by my arms, and threw me into my window, which broke. I had glass in my feet that I removed myself.”
The restraining order request was filed on November 15, according to court records. A no-contact order was issued November 19 as a condition of Stacy’s release, court records show. Heavy has requested access to the restraining order itself.
Stacy pleaded not guilty to charges from the November arrest on February 22, according to court records, and his trial is set to begin May 23, 2022.
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Stacy’s Football Career
The running back’s NFL career only lasted three seasons and his New York tenure was even shorter — eight games and a stay on the injured reserve after a fractured ankle.
The Vanderbilt product was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the fifth round of the 2013 draft. He played two seasons in L.A. before journeying to the East Coast.
In total, Stacy accumulated 1,355 rushing yards and 358 receiving yards. He scored 10 combined touchdowns — one as a Jet — and logged 86 first downs. He retired from the league on February 16, 2017.
After stints in the Canadian Football League and the Alliance of American Football, Stacy has not played professionally since the AAF disbanded in 2019.
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