Daytona Beach Suicide Video: Florida MMA fighter and gym owner Lance Darren “Venom” Goodall Jr. stabs himself to death following a leaked video suggesting his involvement with child sexual abuse. The New Jersey boxer, gym owner, and trainer who once trained some of the cast of “Housewives of New Jersey” took his own life as police were about to “make contact” during an investigation into allegations of sexual activity with a minor, accordig to law enforcement agencies.
According to the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office, a 14-year-old’s father discovered video and photographs of “inappropriate sexual activity” between his child and Jersey City native Lance Darren “Venom” Goodall Jr. on his child’s phone. The child was a Jiu-Jitsu student at Goodall’s Club in Osprey, Florida. Detectives concluded that they had probable grounds to charge Goodall with three charges of sexual battery by a person in a position of custodial authority.
Investigators from the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office discovered Goodall dead from a stab wound at his residence. According to the warrant, the relationship began in August 2022. Goodall and the teen had oral sex several times and requested the teen to “have his back” by not telling anyone about it. Goodall was afraid of losing custody of his son if anyone found out, and he threatened suicide if caught, according to authorities.
He emailed the adolescent an image of a gun and stated that he possessed six. According to the warrant, Goodall told the teen that he would rather die than see his face all over. Goodall founded Venom Fitness in Wyckoff in 2015 when he was 23, but the company closed in 2020. He said he trained Danielle Staub, Lauren Manzo, and Ashlee Malleo from “Real Housewives of New Jersey.” In 2010, Staub wrote about Goodall in a blog post for Bravo. After seven months of working together, she called Goodall her trainer and said “special thank you” to him. Malleo, the show’s Jacqueline Laurita’s daughter, stated that she trained electronically with Goodall to lose 20 pounds by 2020.
Report child sexual abuse to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s CyberTipline: 800-843-5678. If you feel you or someone you know may be in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline, 1-800-273-TALK, or the NJ Hopeline, 1-855-654-6735. A TikTok video of the scene has gone viral.
