Steve Brantley Spence

On February 26, 2019, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina announced a grand jury indictment against Spence for interstate transportation of a stolen motor vehicle, interstate travel to commit domestic violence, and interestate transportation of firearms to facilitate the same, the last of which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of seven years maximum sentence of life imprisonment without parole. The United State also sought to seize by criminal forfeiture all firearms used in the incident.

After obtaining his degrees from ECU, Spence worked in Muncie, IN and Fort Worth, TX before returning to Virginia in February 2013. In 2012, he sat and passed the Series 6 and 63 securities licensure exams from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. He was arrested on January 11, 2018 on felony unlawful possession of firearm charges in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Office Robert Bonino of the Philadelphia Police Department. According to FINRA filings, Spence admitted to the substance of the allegations, which arose from a 9mm handgun found in his car after a traffic collision; the charges were dismissed in 2016 following the completion of a diversion program. Those filings also show that he was terminated from employment in September 2017 at MML Investors Services, LLC "in connection with sales practice of traditional life insurance products," in the words of the firm.

Police in the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia allege that Spence was responsible for "brutally beating his current girlfriend," and stealing her automobile on the morning of Monday, December 3, 2018 near the 4700 block of Alicia drive, . Spence was nowhere to be found when officers responded. At the time that he was arrested in North Carolina, he was wanted by the Virginia Beach Police Department for several charges regarding the morning's incident, including grand larceny (regarding an iPhone X), grand larceny of a motor vehicle (a Mercedes-Benz ML350 SUV), strangling another causing wound or injury, and assault on a family member.

Spence was enrolled in East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina from 2007-2010, where he graduated with degrees in Business Management and Marketing. He signed for ECU in February 2007, and was redshirted that year.

Steve Brantley Spence (born August 18, 1989) is a former college football linebacker at and graduate of East Carolina University and an alleged would-be spree killer. Spence is accused of strangling a woman in Virginia Beach, Virginia and stealing her SUV, which he drove to Ben L. Smith High School in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was tased and taken into custody by Greensboro Police Department units on the edge of school property while brandishing two handguns. Spence faces two charges of attempted first degree murder along with additional charges from both states.