Former NFL player sentenced for attack on ex-girlfriend

Zac Stacy beat the mother of his child in 2021 an Oakland apartment. A video of the crime went viral.

By Michael Eng
| 3:45 p.m. March 1, 2023

West Orange Times & Observer
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Former NFL running back Zac Stacy will spend six months in jail and one year in probation for the November 2021 domestic-violence attack on his ex-girlfriend and the mother of his child.

An Orange County judge delivered the sentence Monday, Feb. 27.

A video of the incident, which took place Nov. 13, 2021, in an apartment in the town of Oakland, went viral.

In an affidavit written during their investigation, Orlando Police Department officers said Stacy “struck (the victim) on the right side of her head, and picked her up and threw her against the television, causing it to crack and fall over. ... He continued yelling at her and striking her while she got up from the floor, and picked her up again and threw her into the baby’s bouncy chair. While she was still on the floor pleading for him to stop, he picked her up and body-slammed her onto a baby walker, causing the object to break.”

Stacy is a former running back for the then-St. Louis Rams and New York Jets and played from 2013-2015. He also played for the XFL's Memphis Express.

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Michael Eng

As a child, Editor and Publisher Michael Eng collected front pages of the Kansas City Star during Operation Desert Storm, so it was a foregone conclusion that he would pursue a career in journalism. He holds a journalism degree from the University of Missouri — Columbia School of Journalism. When he’s not working, you can find him spending time with his wife and three children, or playing drums around town. He’s also a sucker for dad jokes.