UPDATE: The brother-in-law of Montgomery Biscuits pitcher Blake Bivens killed the athlete’s wife, toddler son and mother-in-law before he was captured naked during a manhunt in a tiny southern Virginia community, authorities said Wednesday.
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Tuesday’s scheduled doubleheader between the Chattanooga Lookouts and the Montgomery Biscuits at AT&T Field was canceled due to a “tragic event within the Biscuits family.”
“Our thoughts are with the entire Tampa Bay Rays and Montgomery Biscuits organizations at this time,” Lookouts president and general manager Rich Mozingo said in a release. “We want to express our deepest condolences and sympathies to the Biscuits family.”
ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported Tuesday night that the wife and child of Montgomery pitcher Blake Bivens were among three people killed in rural Virginia. Police have charged Bivens’ wife’s brother with first-degree homicide.