By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 12:14 EST, 11 December 2013 | UPDATED: 15:30 EST, 11 December 2013 The captain of the Bloomfield High School football team,  who is on trial for the murder of a 27-year-old with whom he had been having a sexual relationship, claims to have been sexually and physically assaulted by the man in the past. Tarence Mitchell, 18, of Bloomfield, Connecticut, has admitted to stabbing Ronald Taylor Jr - known as 'City' - five times in the torso with a steak knife out the front of his home on November 21, after trying to break off their two-year relationship.
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Tarence Mitchell, 18, has been charged with murder following the stabbing death of Ronald Taylor Jr., 27, in Bloomfield, Conneticut on November 21
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The pair had been in a sexual relationship for two years
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Mitchell told police he was trying to break things off with his lover when they got into a fight, with Mitchell stabbing Taylor five times
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As part of a self defense suggestion in court, Mitchell's lawyer said Taylor had sexually and physically assault the teen
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He got into the front passenger seat of @placeholder's car, and Taylor asked to see his cell phone.
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started to yell at @placeholder and positioned his pointer and middle
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Taylor hit @placeholder in the face, and Mitchell pulled the knife out of his pocket and stabbed Taylor twice, he told police.
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climbed over him, and @placeholder stabbed him as he did, the report says.
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@placeholder opened the passenger side door and started running away.