{"id":128026,"date":"2026-02-09T21:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/128026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:34:11","slug":"k-state-mens-basketball-coach-arrested-for-domestic-battery-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/128026\/","title":{"rendered":"K-State men&#8217;s basketball coach arrested for domestic battery | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the Kansas State University men\u2019s basketball coaching staff was arrested early Monday morning for domestic battery.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Randall Vital Jr., 29, of Manhattan was arrested at 12:20 a.m. at 606 Vattier St., No. 2. He is charged with one count of domestic battery and was released from the Riley County Jail on a $2,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>A Riley County Police Department arrest report listed a second arrest at the same address.<\/p>\n<p>Kristen Blake Whiting Daniels, 27, of Manhattan was arrested for domestic battery and criminal damage to property. She was released from jail on a $4,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>RCPD representatives confirmed the arrests are connected to each other but would not release further information.<\/p>\n<p>Vital, a graduate assistant for the Wildcats, joined the staff prior to this season after helping Baylor win a national title in 2021 when head coach Jerome Tang was an assistant under Scott Drew.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-5 forward was a three-time All-Big 12 selection. He briefly played professionally, and was a practice squad tight end for both the Seattle Seahawks and the Kansas City Chiefs before reuniting with Tang.<\/p>\n<p>K-State did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats have struggled mightily this season, starting Big 12 play 1-9 after Saturday\u2019s loss at TCU. K-State hosts Cincinnati at 8 p.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A member of the Kansas State University men\u2019s basketball coaching staff was arrested early Monday morning for domestic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[8918,303,9159,3777,9158,8041,28634,75,84,83,4393,9,24,63,15757,3301,9105],"class_list":["post-128026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-american-football","tag-crime","tag-crimes","tag-criminal-justice","tag-criminal-law","tag-law-enforcement","tag-legal-action","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-misconduct","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-public-law","tag-violence","tag-violent-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}