‘Last Chance U’ player Isaiah Wright, brother arrested on murder charge

A former college football player featured on the Netflix series “Last Chance U” was arrested Wednesday and charged with murder.

Isaiah Wright, whose wrenching story was profiled on the popular documentary series, was arrested, along with his brother Camion Patrick and two others for their alleged roles in the July 25 killing of Caleb Radford.

Radford, 18, was stabbed to death in Louisville, Tenn.

On the second season of the show, Wright spoke about his troubled youth. Their mother walked out on Wright and his brothers and their father was in prison. Wright grew up with a combustible temper, said he trusted no one, and often clashed with taskmaster head coach Buddy Stephens on the show. He also battled head injuries and appeared to play through concussions while at East Mississippi Community College, known as a last-chance school for players who fail out of or are kicked off big-time college teams.

One of the hardest scenes to watch in the series was when Wright was told he could not play because of injury and he went ballistic in the locker room. He wailed about how football was his life and they could not take that away from him.

Wright, 20, initially had a scholarship to play running back at Auburn. He left EMCC and went on to Division II West Georgia but wound up leaving school before this season.

He was arrested in Tennessee.

Patrick, 22, a former Tennessee recruit who also played two years at EMCC (before the Netflix series was filmed there), most recently was a member of the University of Indiana football team in 2016. After suffering a knee injury last season, he was granted a medical hardship waiver in July. He remained on scholarship, and was suspended following his arrest this week.

According to reports, two other men, Keshawn Hopewell, 21, and Itiq Green, 28, were also arrested last month in Alcoa, Tenn., in connection to Radford’s death.