UPDATED: Suspect Caught in Killing of Clayton Beathard
UPDATE: Suspect Michael D. Mosley has been arrested. Late Wednesday afternoon (12-25), Nashville Metro Police released the following statement: “Michael Mosley surrendered from a vacant home on Petway Rd in Cheatham County after it was surrounded by law enforcement. He was there alone. MNPD SWAT, TBI, U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force & Midtown Hills Precinct detectives teamed up to make this happen.”
Find the original story below.
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23-year-old Michael D. Mosley was wanted in connection with the killing of Clayton Beathard, 22, and Paul Trapeni III, 21, and the injury of a third man on Saturday, December 21st shortly before 3AM outside the Dogwood Bar in Nashville on the 1900 block of Division Street. All three men were allegedly stabbed by Michael D. Mosley, and were transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center where Beathard and Trapeni later died. The third man suffered injuries to his eye and arm, but was treated and released.
Clayton Beathard is the brother of country music singer, songwriter, and Nashville native Tucker Beathard. Tucker signed to Big Machine’s Dot Records imprint in 2015, and later signed with Warner Nashville in early 2019. Clayton and Tucker are also the sons of Nashville songwriter Casey Beathard, who is known for writing songs for Gary Allan, Eric Church, Kenny Chesney, and others. Casey Beathard was BMI’s Songwriter of the Year in 2004 and 2008.
The incident between the men reportedly was instigated when the suspect made an unwanted advance towards a woman in the Dogwood Bar. The altercation became physical when the men exited the bar, and Mosley drew a knife. Mosley is charged with two counts of criminal homicide and one count of attempted criminal homicide.
Mosley was identified in surveillance footage released by police. Two other individuals have also been identified but not charged, and police are still looking for a fourth individual seen in the footage who could be connected to the incident. Michael Mosley has a criminal background (where the mug shot is from), and was currently out on a $5,000 bond for an attack on a 37-year-old woman in December of 2018. He was scheduled to appear in court on the previous charge in January of 2020.
Mosley is from Pegram, Tennessee, which is just west of Nashville. He was added to the The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Most Wanted list, and anyone with information about the crime is asked to call Nashville Crimestoppers at 615-74-CRIME or 1-800-TBI-FIND.
Clayton and Tucker Beathard’s third brother is C.J. Beathard, who is the backup quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. C.J. missed San Francisco’s Saturday night game against the Los Angeles Rams to return home to be with his family. The 49ers won the game, and dedicated the win to C.J. and the Beathard family. The grandfather of the brothers, and the father of Casey Beathard is former NFL General Manager and Hall of Famer Bobby Beathard.
December 24, 2019 @ 1:39 pm
Absolutely terrible for all families involved, the holidays will never be the same for them. Prayers and sympathy for their families,
There was a big thread on the College Football reddit page, as Beathard played for Long Island University with more details, if anyone is curious.
December 24, 2019 @ 7:43 pm
I googled young Mr Mosley and here’s his history….
In 2015 he was charged in a felony stabbing incident…Last month he was arrested for the 2018 assault of a woman at a Walmart….AND…he was involved in a March 2019 jail riot..!
So my question is…..Why the F….was this guy out on bail ????????????
December 25, 2019 @ 12:28 am
Liberal judges. That’s why, despite my socially liberal leanings, I could never consider myself a liberal. I am a social worker, but I do not believe everybody can be rehabilitated. People like this must be locked up for life, so they cannot endanger others. This is common sense, and the only moral argument. I fear that we have gotten so far off track as a justice system that we are putting political correctness above human life. I am not a Fox News Trumpy, but political correctness will ultimately destroy the fabric of our country.
Last but not least… Vincent Neil Emerson has the best album of the year, with Mike and The Moonpies a close second.
December 25, 2019 @ 6:26 am
Liberal judges? The stupidest, laziest, uneducated response. Matt Bevin REPUBLICAN just handed out 600 pardons (included in that group of felons was child rapist and a murderer) on his way out of the governor’s office in Kentucky. A REPUBLICAN.
It’s not liberal or conservative. The correct response is corruption.
A terrible, decisive comment left by you.
December 25, 2019 @ 9:13 am
What Hoptowntiger said. I have known lots of judges over time and be they “liberal” or “conservative,” they were following the law when it came to sentencing, and prisons were usually following the law when it came time for release. If you don’t like what judges or prisons are doing, your beef is with the state legislatures. I don’t recall the last time the Tennessee General Assembly was considered “liberal.”
Yes, there are psychopaths with violent criminal tendencies out there, and the system needs to identify them and figure out how to deal with them. Unfortunately, those conservative legislatures are doing the best they can to cut funding for such programs.
December 26, 2019 @ 10:32 pm
Hoptowntiger94, you’re always very dramatic on here. My comment may have been short sighted, but not stupid, nor lazy. If we could gather statistics of “liberal” vs “conservative” judges, and the “liberals” have been far more egregious sentences, would I win? Obviously, that is a near impossible task. I should have prefaced my comment with: In my experience. I have worked with numerous clients who have been “treated” by some excellent clinicians, but never made progress. I have witnessed Republican and Democrat judges give lenient sentences, citing that they believe the person can be rehabilitated. If this could not be done in years that were given with intensive treatment, why could this be done in prison with less time served?
Don’t be so dramatic. This is usually the sign of a weak person. Also, liberal has very little to do with “Republican” or “Democrat.” You may not understand politics, but many judges often ride the coattail of the popular party in the district. Many of them have do not align with party in the sense that you believe. You fancy yourself pretty intelligent, and maybe you are, but your comments do not often reflect this. I am willing to bet you have a difficult time in most relationships.
Thank you Elk Tracker for your kind words.
December 27, 2019 @ 6:54 am
You contradict yourself in your comments. You state, “liberal has very little to do with “Republican” or “Democrat,” but in your original post refer to your “socially liberal leanings” and claim “political correctness will ultimately destroy the fabric of our country.” Which is it?
I don’t think I’m dramatic. But, I do have zero tolerance for the current divisive political rhetoric – “fake news” “libertard” “snowflake”… Automatically blaming one side without any facts is a lazy argument.
I never “fancied” a damn thing in my life.
December 25, 2019 @ 3:22 pm
“In 2015 he was charged …”
“Last month he was arrested for…”
“AND…he was involved in …”
“Why the F….was this guy out on bail ????????????…”
If you want a serious answer to the question, we’d really need one other bit of info: What has Mosley been CONVICTED of?
December 25, 2019 @ 4:03 pm
“Police said that at the time of the killings, Mosley was free on a $5,000 bond after being arrested for aggravated assault in a brutal December 2018 beat down of a 37-year-old woman at a Nashville Walmart.
Mosley had previously been convicted in a 2016 misdemeanor assault for squirting urine from a shampoo bottle on an employee at a Davidson County, Tennessee, jail on Christmas Day 2015, police said in a statement.
In February 2018, he was convicted on multiple counts of armed robbery and was sentenced to two concurrent six-year prison terms, police said.
Mosley was also convicted of two counts of felony aggravated assault in May 2015 for stabbing a man and cutting a woman and was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison in December 2017, police said. Mosley expired his sentence from prison on Dec. 5, 2019 and was released on a detainer to Davidson County, according to the Tennessee Department of Corrections.
During a brawl in March 2019 involving more than 50 inmates at the Cheatham, Tennesee, County Jail, Mosley was caught on surveillance video allegedly stomping on an inmate’s head, the Chetham County Sheriff’s Office told ABC affiliate station WKRN-TV in Nashville.”
December 25, 2019 @ 4:13 pm
In that case–if that report is accurate–I’d say Mosley should have been locked up.
If he was sentenced to two 6-year terms for armed robbery in February, 2018, he should not have been out in 2019. (The December 2018 aggravated assault arrest would have constituted a parole violation on the 2018 conviction).
December 25, 2019 @ 4:20 pm
I agree. But how was he getting out all the time? It’s not like he was an exemploray prisoner. He got a misdemeanor and a felony while in prison!
January 19, 2020 @ 8:47 am
Maybe time served before conviction counts. Could also be jail overcrowding and releasing the least dangerous. I would hope he’s now off the least dangerous list.
I’ve also never understood the concurrent sentencing.
December 25, 2019 @ 4:53 pm
HayesCarl, “stupidest, laziest” is a bit of an overreaction—and weirdly defensive. As a former social worker myself, I’m betting you’ve had a few experiences with the court system that left you scratching your head. Decisions that hurt children for the sake of ideology. If my assumption is true, I tip my hat to your courage to point it out. Social work (and education, btw) need more people like you.
December 25, 2019 @ 6:36 am
I’m betting his family has money. The prisons are overcrowded and those who can get out have the means. This country has to get out of the business of locking up non violent criminals (drug dealers, defaulters on loans, whatever those two chicks went to jail for in that college scandal), so we have room for the bad dudes.
December 26, 2019 @ 9:57 am
The college fraud people are all going to white collar prison, though.
December 26, 2019 @ 11:44 am
That is true.
December 27, 2019 @ 12:40 pm
For more information on the under-incarceration problem, see this article from Powerline:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/12/our-under-incarceration-problem-tennessee-edition.php
December 25, 2019 @ 3:22 pm
Good news-captured!
Bad news-alive.
Please resume your pointless political bickering.
December 25, 2019 @ 3:26 pm
I’ll throw in 10 bucks and bet that his family has no money to speak of (or that they have not provided any financial support for his life of crime).
December 25, 2019 @ 3:55 pm
Someone posted his bond of $5,000 (I don’t know if only a % of that was required or that was the actual amount posted) for assaulting a woman in Walmart. He obviously has a good lawyer (not an appointed one) that is keeping him out of jail for his previous felonies.
December 26, 2019 @ 5:33 pm
If it’s anything like it is here in little Oconee County, SC then all it takes is loose lips. The meth head thieves in the county are CONSTANTLY in and out of jail. All they need is a little bit of info on someone slightly more important in the criminal world. I know of multiple places around here where the people in question are living in dilapidated houses or trailers with no power (and on a well so no water) and a moped is their only transportation but they are arrested and back out in no time. It’s all about who you have info on.
January 19, 2020 @ 8:49 am
Usually you just post 10% of the bond amount, so $500. Maybe a car was used as collateral.
December 25, 2019 @ 5:22 pm
This scum has been captured and hopefully never walk the streets again. Thoughts and prayers go out to the Beathard family. CJ is a team mate and backup of my friends son Jimmy and is a big part of the 9er family (The Faithful). Tucker is a solid musician and sometimes wears a Faithful cap as well supporting his family. These are good people. A senseless tragedy no family should ever endure.
December 26, 2019 @ 7:32 am
I’m betting the Beathard family has a little more money than the Mosely family. Hopefully enough to bring a large wrongful death lawsuit naming as a co-defendent who the fuck ever let this waste of space out of jail.
To make room for fucks like this we need to get all the weed convicts out of all of our jails and prisons. It is beyond ridiculous that State B is jailing someone for doing something that is perfectly legal in State A. I’m looking at you, Indiana.
December 26, 2019 @ 10:43 am
We’re a nation of states, pal, and the Feds still define marijuana as a controlled substance. It’s recreational in only 11 states.
By the way, the Marion County Prosecutor says he won’t prosecute small possession.
December 26, 2019 @ 1:54 pm
Are you defending state’s rights or the absurd federal marijuana laws?
December 27, 2019 @ 12:45 pm
The Federal Form 4473, which one must fill out to buy a firearm, makes it clear that if you use marijuana, you have negated your 2nd Amendment rights. That would produce a no sale of the desired firearm to a truthful completion of the form. Most marijuana advocates seem to be unaware of this termination of 2nd Amendment rights for all that have recently used. If they do know, they don’t seem to care.
December 26, 2019 @ 12:29 pm
If he ever gets convicted of this he will become somebody’s bitch in prison
November 10, 2024 @ 4:26 pm
Under-incarcerated unless you’re a POC. Then it’s MASS INCARCERATION,the new Jim Crow,called Esq. James Crow.