UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. -- Two people, one of which was a former NFL player, were killed in an early-morning house fire in University Place Thursday, a day after a restraining order was filed against a man now being questioned in connection with the fire.

Family members and law enforcement sources tell KIRO 7 that one of the victims of a fatal fire in University Place was former NFL quarterback, John Eddie JJ Jones.

Also killed was 61-year-old Rachel Kalebu, who family members describe as Jones' friend.

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The bodies of Jones and Kalebu were discovered after a fire gutted the home they shared with a 23-year-old man.

That man, Kalebu's nephew, was taken into police custody for questioning later Thursday.

On Wednesday in Pierce County Superior Court, Kalebu filed a restraining order against her nephew.

In a protection order obtained by KIRO 7, the woman said, “(He) threatened me very many times and is very defiant, disrespectful to me. The truth is that I am a prisoner in my own home.”

She also said, “I have no peace at all.”

She wrote that she called a mental health center and they came to the house twice. They “advised me to evict him and asked for restraining him.”

“He is not my child, he is my nephew,” she said. “I need him out of my house.”

After the fire, a man's body was found during a preliminary sweep of the home. The two other residents were presumed missing, Pierce County sheriff's department spokesman Ed Troyer said.

Later Thursday, investigators found the body of a woman.

Police said they wanted to speak with the third resident, Kalebu's nephew, but could not initially find him.

KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Jeff Dubois was at the scene when the man wandered up and appeared to be surprised to see police and the state of the home.

Dubois said police talked to the man for several minutes and then took the man in a patrol car for further questioning.

Police said the man told deputies he was in the woods overnight after getting into a fight. Deputies said the man is a person of interest in the fire because of an incident last week involving the man.

Sheriff's deputies came to the home last week after neighbors, who said they were concerned for their safety, called police about pit bulls owned by the nephew. The dogs had been loose in the neighborhood, police said.

When police arrived, the nephew was uncooperative and sheriff's deputies had to fire beanbags and use a Taser on the man in order to arrest him, authorities said. On his Web site, Jones listed his age as 57 years old. The site included this biography:

“From 1974-1976, I was the Back-up Quarterback to “Broadway” Joe Willie Namath with this National Football League team, where I was the First Quarterback ever to bench Joe Namath while he was healthy and was one of the first three African-American Quarterbacks to play in the National Football League.”